Poachers have slaughtered a rhino in the Kenyan capital's national park, officials said Sunday, a brazen attack flouting tough new laws designed to stem a surge of such killings.
Amid a wave of rhino and elephant killings across the country, the shooting of the rhino in the heavily guarded Nairobi park—the headquarters of the government's Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)—illustrates how easily poachers are decimating the country's large animals.
"Nairobi National Park is one of the best-protected areas, so it is a really shocking thing for us," KWS spokesman Paul Udoto told AFP.
"The rhino horns were hacked and taken away.... Investigations are under way."
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Amid a wave of rhino and elephant killings across the country, the shooting of the rhino in the heavily guarded Nairobi park—the headquarters of the government's Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)—illustrates how easily poachers are decimating the country's large animals.
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