In a quest to reduce the cases of poaching in the country, the Kenya Wildlife Service Director Dr. Julius Kipng’etich has ordered security personnel to shoot poachers on sight.
The director was speaking during the launch of elephant translocation at Siyaibei in Narok North district. Kipng’entich said his officers are determined to break the chain of poaching that has threatened the multibillion shilling tourism sector.
Meanwhile the Kenya Wildlife Service is also set to launch a family planning pilot project for elephants in the coming three months at Mwaluganje elephants Sanctuary and Shimba Hill National Reserve in Kwale County.
The aim of the program is to maintain a stable population of 200 elephants in the area and to reduce human-wildlife conflict. According to the Kenya Wildlife Service head of species and conservation management, Patrick Omondi, the numbers of the elephant must be controlled.
To regulate the number and maintain a lean population for years, the officer said that those contraceptives must be introduced to individual elephants after a genetics exercise was completed in the two areas.
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