Topic: Kenya Wildlife Service

Tanzania withdraws bid to sell 'legal ivory;' Kenyan poachers kill 12 elephants (+video)

Conservation groups rebuff Tanzania's bid to sell $55 million in ivory and downgrade elephants' endangered status. But Kenya's largest massacre of elephants Jan. 5 points to the difficulties of ending poaching.

Poaching crisis escalates with 'targeted, efficient' slaughter of 12 Kenya elephants

Kenya's largest elephant killing on record comes on the heels of a sevenfold increase in elephant killings since 2007, driven by soaring Asian demand for ivory.

God and mammals: In Kenya, religious leaders pray to thwart poaching

African religious leaders toured Kenya's Nairobi National Park to learn about the urgent threat to elephants and rhinos from poaching – and to share ideas about using their moral clout to stop it.

Lions in Nairobi? A new suburban problem

On the outskirts of Kenya's capital city, stray lions from Nairobi National Park have begun to prey on domestic herds. Masai herdsmen threaten to take action if the government doesn't. 

Scientists discover new species that looks like a tiny, furry elephant

A new species of elephant shrew, a long-nosed, insect eating mammal native to Africa, was spotted scampering through a remote forest in Kenya.

Kenya asks celebrities to save its endangered wildlife

Kenyan conservationists ask celebrities to adopt local endangered animals in order to provide much-needed wildlife preservation funding.

Why is Kenya moving 7,000 zebras and wildebeest?

Kenyan officials are spending $1.35 million to round up 4,000 zebras and 3,000 wildebeest and haul them across the country to feed hungry lions. Why is that necessary?

National parks not always refuges for Kenyan wildlife