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Wonderful story by Mary Wykstra, cheetah researcher, as she follows "Mom's" cheetah family.


                              

A walk into Haller Park is a walk into a rich nature park where flora and fauna peacefully co-exist.

Kenya has become a transit point for contraband ivory, it was revealed on Friday.  Kenya Wildlife Services director Julius Kipng’etich said poachers from Congo, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia were shipping their illegal cargo through the Mombasa port to Asia.

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has seized a large consignment of elephant tusks worth Sh158 million at the Mombasa Port destined for export to the Far East. ...

Conservationists in Kenya are receiving SMS messages these days from an unlikely source: Lions roaming the savannah

Nairobi (Reuters) - Kenyan authorities have seized a container loaded with 87 elephant tusks and disguised as soapstone carvings destined for Hong Kong, a customs official said.Kenya seizes container with 87 elephant tusks

Last Friday, Amboseli National Park was put on the recovery path and for two years, no development activity in and around the park’s ecosystem will go on.

It is a bird of prey associated with the virtue of patience. Gifted with a telephoto eye, it can drop from three kilometres in the sky at a speed of 120 kilometres per hour to the carrion.

NAROK Wildlife Forum has opposed the ongoing translocation of elephants from Narok North to Maasai Mara. Coordinator Nicholas ole Murero said moving elephants from Narok North to Maasai Mara National Reserve in Narok South to eliminate human-elephant conflict is counterproductive.

Kenya’s security forces engaged in a fierce shootout with abductors of the French woman who was kidnapped early on Saturday at a resort island in northern Kenya.