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The title article says: "Although some sites have recorded declines, elephant numbers have been stable or increasing since 2006 in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda, an

• majani 10y ago
  That's why studies that fail to mention the president's mother's involvement miss out on a lot of nuances. A deeper look: who is in charge of official animal census in Kenya? The Kenya Wildlife Service, a government agency. The potential for bias cannot be ignored. Official numbers should be weighted against independent observations from conservationists. Here's an article that took all this into account and showed how the KWS goes to lengths to cover up poaching numbers "The KWS, charged with protecting Kenya’s game, is accused of consistently underestimating the threat, and Paul Kipkoech, its head of security in Tsavo, claimed in an interview that only 20 elephants had been killed in the park this year. But conservationists say the figure in Tsavo is much higher, perhaps as much as three or four times that. The Tsavo Trust, which runs aerial surveillance of the park, said in its November report that it had discovered six elephants shot dead by poachers that month alone." http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/elephant-appeal-few-are-willing-to-say-just-how-bad-the-poaching-crisis-is-9035157.html http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/elephant-appeal-...