18 elephants, one of them pregnant, lost to poachers in the first week of 2013

KWS rangers are in hot pursuit of a poaching gang believed to have slaughtered 11 elephants and carted off their tusks. The incident occurred at Bisadi area of Tsavo East National Park on Saturday January 5, and the animal's carcasses were found riddled with bullet holes. The number of poachers could not be immediately established but initial reports indicate that it could be a gang of ten. Meanwhile, four more elephants were poached in the Maasai Mara in the last few days. One elephant was found with bullet wounds at the Mara North Conservancy but with its tusks intact...