Kenya gives elephants more room

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2006

NAIROBI (AFP) — Kenyan wildlife authorities resumed the relocation of hundreds of elephants from an overcrowded reserve in Kenya's coastal region to a more spacious park further inland, officials said. The second phase of the relocation from the Shimba Hills National Reserve to Tsavo East National Park, about 300 kilometers (185 miles) southeast of the capital, will target about 250 elephants, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) spokeswoman Connie Maina told AFP.

"The exercise may last up to end of October or even early November," Maina added. During the first phase, some 150 elephants were transfered in the exercise that was billed "the single largest translocation of animals ever undertaken since Noah's Ark," that is expected to cost about 3.3 million dollars (2.6 million euros)....