(Posted 28th July 2025)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Steve Ireri, People Daily (Kenya), July 24, 2025 |
| President William Ruto has claimed that Kenya’s elephant population has more than doubled since 1989, attributing the growth to deliberate conservation policies and community-driven wildlife protection. Speaking in Maasai Mara on Thursday, July 24, 2025, Ruto said that in 1989 the country’s elephant numbers had dropped to about 16,000, but have now risen to 36,000, a change he described as evidence of a policy-backed revival. |
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