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.

Kenyan rangers arrest poachers with 22 elephant tusks
Mon, 05 Sep, 2005 - 14:58

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.

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