Following the recent attacks on the wildlife more so the elephants and the rhinos in Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has been prompted to install more surveillance cameras in the Tsavo Conservation Area to help them in their struggle against poaching as reported by the Kenya’s The Standard news paper.
Poaching has become so rampant and so they have had 16 more infrared cameras placed at strategic watering points where poachers are likely to attack and try to kill the wildlife so said Francis Kimani who is the Tsavo Conservation Area Assistant Director. It is like the poachers wait for these endangered wildlife species at watering points and kill them from there and supply these elephant tusks and rhino horns to the demanding market in Asia. Hopefully, with these cameras, they will be able to get them on video and arrest them with evidence.
Just last year, Kenya lost almost 360 elephants to poaching compared to 289 that were recorded killed in 2011. There is a time poachers slaughtered a family of 11 elephants in the Bisadi area of Tsavo East National Park and that was in January and this was and still the biggest single killing of elephants in Kenya in decades. Therefore KWS has got to make sure this never happens again otherwise they risk losing those great tourists attractions therefore losing a lot of revenue.
