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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

The deaths of an estimated 100 elephants in the Hwange National Park is being linked to poor park maintenance, amid warnings that Zimbabwe’s wildlife is facing a serious disaster.

Hunters and conservationists have long debated the impacts of trophy hunting.

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.

A group of sport hunters have lost their bid in Washington federal court to bring home elephant "trophies" that were legally killed in Mozambique.

Call it justice, karma, or rhino relief. A serial rhino killer has been shot and killed by Swaziland police after he shot at them.

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.

Elephants have evolved a novel strategy for regulating body temperature, which allows them to endure soaring temperatures during the day without succumbing to heat stress.

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.