Is Tanzania eating Kenya’s ‘children’?

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An African elephant with large tusks grazes in Amboseli National Park, Kenya with Mt Kilimanjaro on the horizon. PHOTO | GETTY IMAGES

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Tanzania is doing the wildlife equivalent of eating neighbour Kenya’s children. And Namibia and Zimbabwe are both doing something right with their wildlife, but that is wrong at the same time.

For 50 years, trophy hunting has been banned in Kenya. However, it is permitted in Tanzania, after a ban was lifted six years ago. But there is the political question of the Kenya-Tanzania border. The Amboseli National Park and ranges span about 30,000 square kilometres across Kenya and Tanzania and are home to more than 2,000 elephants.