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Number of elephants growing gradually, KWS survey shows
KWS Director General Kitili Mbathi with Acting Deputy director for Strategy and Change Edwin Wanyonyi (left) and Deputy Director for Parks and Reserves Julius Kimani at the agency's headquarters in Nairobi on June 21, 2017. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
The survey by the Kenya Wildlife Service to determine the impact of poaching on the elephant population in the Tsavo-Mkomazi and Mara ecosystems has shown that between 2014 and 2017, the population of elephants in the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem increased by 14.7 per cent.
This represents an annual increase of 4.9 per cent.
The number of elephants in two national parks is growing gradually to where it was before the poaching crisis hit the country, a survey has shown.
The survey by the Kenya Wildlife Service to determine the impact of poaching on the elephant population in the Tsavo-Mkomazi and Mara ecosystems has shown that between 2014 and 2017, the population of elephants in the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem increased by 14.7 per cent. This represents an annual increase of 4.9 per cent.
