SOS elephants: Kenya summit on poaching crisis

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Kenya’s poaching trend has gone down because of tough anti-poaching policies. But the director of Kenya’s wildlife service, Kitili Mbathi, told Al Jazeera that they cannot afford to be complacent.

"Poachers are getting more sophisticated, and they are running out of territory to carry out their business so we also have to be very careful to seal all the loopholes so that they do not end up coming here," he said.

Also, Kenya is a popular transit country for ivory headed largely to Asia. Conservationists say that elephants can be protected only if all the countries involved work together.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/kenya-hosts-summit-elephant-poaching-crisis-africa-160429081036895.html

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1. Need funding and volunteers to remain vigilant enough to really turn

the tide. That and laws to stop the ivory trade...needs to be more pressure.