by Adam Cruise | Dec 28, 2022 | News
By Lizzy Davies, The Guardian It had been a tricky shoot for Alvin Kaunda, a young Kenyan television reporter, but finally, after about 10 takes, he was managing to get through it. His subject: a heartfelt dispatch about the plight of elephants caught up in the...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 8, 2022 | News
By EWN AMBOSELI – As he peers at the carcass of the young elephant, Kenyan park ranger Josphat Wangigi Kagai says such disturbing sights have become all too familiar – a reflection of the vicious drought sweeping across the Horn of Africa. “I used to...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 7, 2022 | News
By Ayenat Mersie, Reuters NAIROBI: Drought in Kenya killed 205 elephants and scores of other wildlife between February and October as much of East Africa endures its worst drought in 40 years, tourism minister Peninah Malonza said on Friday. Although sporadic rainfall...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 27, 2022 | News
By Ayenat Mersie – Reuters NAIROBI, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Kenya’s worst drought in four decades has killed almost 2% of the world’s rarest zebra in three months, and 25 times more elephants than normal over the same period. It is starving...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 16, 2022 | News
By Gilbert Koech, The Star A conservationist has raised a red flag over the devastating drought currently sweeping the Greater Amboseli ecosystem and other parts of the country, leaving trails of deaths. In a vivid and shocking description of what is happening...