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Kenyan rangers slay poacher behind spate of animal killings
Nairobi (AFP) Jan 23, 2009 Kenya Wildlife Service rangers shot dead a poacher believed to be behind a series of wildlife killings in the country's expansive Tsavo East National park, a spokesman said Friday. The man had been stalking animals at a watering point in the park before he was killed on Wednesday, while his accomplice escaped, KWS spokesman Paul Udoto told AFP. The rangers recovered a semi-automatic rifle, 17 rounds of ammunition, a bicycle, food, a bundle of snares and seven poisoned arrows, Udoto said, adding: "Our teams are still hunting for the poacher who escaped." Kenya had outlawed poaching and the reckless slaughter of wildlife in 1977, while allowing the controlled culling of some game. In 2003 however, activists pushed through further restrictions. In 2004, President Mwai Kibaki vetoed a law to re-introduce sport hunting and the killing of wildlife straying onto private land, which critics said would have hobbled conservation efforts. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Elusive search for Kruger crocodile die-off baffles scientists
Johannesburg (AFP) Jan 21, 2009When three rotting crocodile carcasses were spotted in a remote corner of South Africa's world famous Kruger National Park wildlife reserve, alarm bells started ringing for scientists. |
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