A poacher, suspected of killing a number of elephants was shot and killed my the Kenya Wildlife Services. There as a gun battle in the Tsavo National Park.

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“The researchers captured the moment a mother knocked her older calf off his feet after he began misbehaving after the birth of a younger sibling. ” – Telegraph

“Rescued from all corners of Kenya and brought to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, 30 minutes outside the capital of Nairobi, the elephant calves are cared for with every intention of returning them to the wild.” – Mail Online

“The elephant population in Northern Kenya has increased by five per cent since the last count in 2002.” – DAILY NATION

An elephant calf was born at the Ambesoli Park in Kenya on November 4th, 2008. While the country hoped that Barack Obama, “the son of Kenya”, would be elected President of the United States, a new male calf was born. The baby elephant was named Obama, of course.

The post on the Ambesoli Trust website contains a photo of newborn baby Obama, as well as some additional information.

photo credit: transplanted mountaineer

“The elephant population in the expansive Northern Kenya has increased by 5 per cent since the last count in 2002, according to the latest census report released Saturday.” – Africa Science News Service

“Kenya’s high court on Friday awarded a British woman 65 million shillings (£533,000) in damages after she was attacked and seriously wounded by an elephant while staying at a safari lodge in 2000. ” – (via) Telegraph

“Africa’s largest-ever investigation of wildlife crime has unearthed a ton of illegal African elephant ivory, several animal pelts, and hippopotamus teeth, the Kenya Wildlife Service and INTERPOL announced this week. ” – National Geographic News

“Kenya’s world famous Amboseli Elephant researchers led by Nairobi based Elephant conservationist Dr. Joyce Poole of 26 years elephant experience will team up with local expertise like Manori Gunawardena to start a long standing study of Asian Elephants along the lines of the African project focusing on the Minneriya-kaudulla Wewa elephant population.” – Asian Tribune

“For close to a decade now, Kenya has been in the forefront in crusading against the push by a few countries seeking to have a worldwide ban on trade in ivory lifted. As a country, Kenya has had a chilling experience with poaching which justifies this trepidation.” – Daily Nation

“Rombo District Council in Kilimanjaro Region has incurred a loss of 718m/- due to destruction done by elephants which wandered into the villages from Tsavo National Park in neighbouring Kenya and ruined food crop farms.” – Tanzania Standard Newspapers

“A Kenyan schoolgirl has revealed how she hid in a forest habited by elephants as she made an escape from a marriage suitor two and a half times her age.” – EcoWorldly

“The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an elephant, a sizable young female, nubile and shy. Her name, as she’s known to him and his colleagues, is Anne. She stands half-concealed within a cluster of trees on the knob of a hill in remote northern Kenya, browsing tranquilly with several members of her family. Around her neck hangs a stout leather collar along which, at the crest of her shoulders, like a tiny porkpie hat, sits an electronic transmitter.” – National Geographic Magazine

“Sudan announced on Wednesday a Khartoum police swoop busting an illicit ivory trading ring, seizing more than 470 pieces and arresting an unspecified number of suspects.”- Yahoo! News Photos

“Twenty years ago, in Kenya’s Central Province, a fence was built to protect the endangered black rhino. Now that fence has been expanded. The nearly completed barrier is 400 kilometers long. It encloses Aberdares National Park and helps promote ecosystem management, farming and public education. Voice of America English to Africa Service reporter, Sara Nics, at Aberdares, describes the scene.’ – VOA News

“The decision by a global arbiter on endangered species to allow China to import backlog stock of ivory from Africa may be the death knell for Kenyan elephants.” – The Standard

“Three Chinese nationals have been arrested in Nairobi while trying to smuggle out processed ivory through the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, authorities say.” – Nationmedia.com

“The arrest in May of two Chinese visitors at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta airport rang alarm bells among animal welfare groups in Kenya. During a routine baggage check, customs officials found Shubo Liang and Tao Gu had stuffed 240lbs (110kg) of ivory into their bags” – The Independent