The ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa is posing a serious challenge to Kenya’s elephant population. Officials in Tsavo National Park now say the country’s worst drought in four decades is killing 20 times more elephants than poaching and that much of the park’s wildlife has fled in a desperate search for water. Within the last year alone, at least 179 elephants had died of thirst, whereas poaching had claimed the lives of fewer than 10.
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