2 Poachers Arrested In Narok

Narok deputy OCPD Cheruiyot says the elephants must have been killed in Mosiro bordering Kajiado County.

The suspects were arrested in Ntulele while trying to sell the tusks.

This comes a day after two other suspects were arrested with 2 tusks and 300kgs of zebra meat.

A government report released in June 2014 said some KWS staff members have been implicated in the poaching of elephants and rhinos.

Poachers in Kenya can earn several hundred dollars for two average-size elephant tusks.

A report last week by Africa’s leading elephant experts, including Save the Elephants, estimated that poachers killed 100,000 elephants between 2010 and 2012 in Africa.

By Bonareri Nyamoita