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An African elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Elephant hunting, which used to be an accepted activity in Kenya, was banned in 1973, as was the ivory trade.
In 1989 Richard Leakey, a paleoanthropologist and conservationist from the prominent Leakey family, was named head of Kenya's Wildlife Conservation and Management Department, the forerunner to today's Kenya Wildlife Service. [12] Elephant hunting had been banned in 1973, but the ivory trade remained legal. [13]
Arriving in Kenya 1905 to assist with his brother's businesses, Grogan instead took to hunting elephant. Hunting widely on Kenya, Uganda and the Belgian Congo, Grogan was one of four hunters to receive a license to hunt in the Lado Enclave, although he remained there to poach elephant once his license expired.
Conservationists petitioned Tanzania on Monday to end elephant trophy hunting in a vast wildlife reserve area that spans its common border with Kenya. About 2,000 elephants, including the "super ...
Kenyan wildlife officials plan to burn 105 tons of ivory at the end of April in a move they say will protect elephants.
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Roosevelt greatly enjoyed hunting, but he was also an avid conservationist. In African Game Trails, he condemns "game butchery as objectionable as any form of wanton cruelty and barbarity" although he notes that "to protest against all hunting of game is a sign of softness of head, not of soundness of heart". As a pioneer of wilderness ...
Elephants at a waterhole in Tsavo East National Park in Kenya. Elephant ivory poaching has been a widespread problem in Africa. In 2013, over 20,000 African elephants were killed for their ivory. The slaughter of African elephants is driven by the black market value of elephant ivory. The illicit trade in ivory is primarily in Asia where ivory ...