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INVESTIGATIONS into the cause of the plane crash that led to the death of a KWS pilot last Friday have started. Civil aviation experts from the ministry of Transport visited the scene at Manyani over the weekend and carried away some parts of the plane.The commandant in charge of training at the Manyani Training School Julius Mwandai  said the plane crashed after hitting a goal post at the playground and the pilot died on the spot. He sai...

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 09:26 PM PDT

In an article titled “Another inconvenient truth” (a convenient title I must admit), Elizabeth Bennet states that “A continuing global failure to crack down on a booming trade in body parts from endangered animals could soon cause some species – including rhinos and tigers — to “wink out” of existence. We have been saying in WildlifeDirect that elephants and rhino’s are particularly vulnerable.

THE last mature female elephant in Samburu- Khadija- was killed by poachers just days before President Kibaki torched five tonnes of ivory seized from poachers. Khadija was the last remaining female elephant from a group known as the "Swahili ladies family" in Samburu.

I was interviewed on national television after last weeks ivory burn when local journalists began to ask the question – why was no Kenyan ivory burned on the 22nd of July along with the contraband Zambian and Malawian ivory?

INVESTIGATIONS into the cause of the plane crash that led to the death of a KWS pilot last Friday have started. Civil aviation experts from the ministry of Transport visited the scene at Manyani over the weekend and carried away some parts of the plane.The commandant in charge of training at the Manyani Training School Julius Mwandai  said the plane crashed after hitting a goal post at the playground and the pilot died on the spot. He sai...