Nyandarua ‘clever’ elephants out-think farmers in central Kenya and destroy acres of cropland
Ndaragwa MP George Gachagua expressed concern over the destruction and fear caused by the animals and promised to escalate the matter to the national government.
New Year agony as elephants raid farms in central Kenya and destroy acres of cropland
Peter Kuria, also a farmer, said they had incurred losses amounting to millions of shillings, following destruction of their crops by straying elephants and other herbivores. However, compensation offered by the government was a tedious bureaucratic process that took long and failed to offer immediate relief.
How ivory trading to finance civil wars led to evolution of tuskless herds of elephants in Africa
African elephants have evolved towards tusklessness in an area where they were intensively hunted for ivory, finds a study of elephants’ traits and genetics in Mozambique. The results, published on October 21, in Science, could have implications for the recovery of elephant populations in the country. Ivory trading was used...
