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The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has refuted claims that there are deliberate plans to separate elephant calves from their mothers to confine them to animal orphanages for commercial gain.
''Elephant orphans or abandoned claves are stumbled on or found opportunistically. Kenya has never had any case where elephant calves were deliberately separated from their mothers for rearing by humans, as this would be both unethical and illegal,'' KWS said in the statement, a copy of which The Standard obtained.
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