Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Kenya: Poachers kill 11 elephants in worst attack

Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki sets on fire an illegal ivory stockpile, July 20, 2011 at the Tsavo National Park. PHOTO/Tony Karumba /AFP/Getty Images

(Reuters) - A family of eleven elephants have been killed in Kenya in what officials say was the worst such incident in the past three decades.

"We have not lost as many elephants in a single incident since the early 1980s," said Patrick Omondi, head of the elephant program at the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Tuesday. "This is a clear

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