179 Kenyan Elephants Die in One Year
Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala revealed, while in an interview with BBC that Kenya had lost 179 elephants in the last year due to drought.
According to the ministry, Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) had been finding carcasses in the Tsavo where much wildlife had fled to.
Low rainfall has severely affected the vegetation which supports elephants and water pans have also dried up.
