Kenyan rangers arrest poachers with 22 elephant tusks

Rangers have arrested three Kenyan men and seized 22 elephant tusks they tried to sell in a south-eastern Kenya town, a spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service said today.

A source tipped off the Kenya Wildlife Service the three were looking for buyers in Garsen, 286 miles south-east of the capital, Nairobi, and two rangers posed as buyers and arrested, said Gichuki Kabukuru.