Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Nakuru National Park

We were privileged to see  10 different white rhinos in the Park. Poaching is rampant in Kenya as in the rest of Africa. Over 3500 elephants were murdered for their tusks and a rhino was poached in Nairobi Game Park just the other day. The cowards Maine the animal enough to bring it down so that they can cut the tusks or horns off. The animal often drags itself quite large distances to die a slow terrible death.
In the OlSeki conservancy in Masai Mara we witnessed a group of female and baby elephants mourning at the bones of a large elephant, perhaps their mother. The elephants gently stroked the bones with their trunks; they looked so sad.
If only the Chinese purchasers of ivory and rhino horn could be dissuaded off their passion for these animal parts the entire revolting trade would cease.

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