Seven elephants killed in Kenyan sanctuary

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

NAIROBI (AFP) — Poachers have killed seven elephants near Kenya's Tsavo National Park over the past month, wildlife officials said Tuesday.

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said the animals died in a migrating corridor near the Kenya-Tanzania border, where seven Tanzanian poachers and their Kenyan guide were arrested over the weekend.

"Of the seven elephants, we recovered tusks for only two," Tsavo chief warden Julius Cheptei told AFP.

Cheptei said the elephants were killed in the nearby Koranze ranch, which serves as a corridor for the animals when migrating from Tsavo to Tanzania's northeastern Mkomazi Game Reserve.

"We suspect that the Tanzanians we arrested over the weekend are part of a syndicate that is notorious for poaching. But we have...