Kenya's Elephants Signify Gains, Highlight Uncertainty

ENN, February 18, 2008

NAIROBI, KENYA — International bans on the ivory trade and efforts to control poaching have helped Kenya's elephant population rebound, wildlife authorities say. In the Tsavo/Mkomazi area -- a conservancy in the larger Tsavo area in southern Kenya -- the elephant population grew from 10,397 in 2005 to 11,696 in 2008, according the Kenya Wildlife Service.
The elephant population had fallen to a meager 5,000 in the 1980s, from five times that in the 1970s. Read more...