Kenya pledges to step up carnivore protection as threats escalate


  • World
  • Friday, 25 Oct 2024

NAIROBI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Kenya will redouble efforts geared toward the protection of carnivores, including lions, spotted hyenas, and leopards, as threats to their survival mount, a senior official said Thursday.

Speaking at the 14th Carnivore Conference taking place in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, Erustus Kanga, director general of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), a state-owned wildlife management agency, stressed that protecting carnivores in their natural habitat is key to sustaining tourism revenue and ecological balance.

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