Amidst all the bad that you’ve been seeing and hearing in 2020, there’s some ‘good news’ pertaining to our planet’s wildlife, coming from the other side of the world too.
The news comes from Kenya,
The country which has struggled in preserving it’s wild life from poachers and other similar threats for several years, has seen a sustantial growth in the population of wild elephants during the course of 30 years.
Since the cencus done in 1989 to determine the count of elephants in the country, the population has now more than doubled as per the latest numbers in 2020.
The numbers of elephants in Kenya now stands at nearly 34,000 as opposed to 16,000 – which was reported 3 decades ago.
The announcement was officially made by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Director John Waweru.
A Facebook post shared in this regard by Kenya Wildlife Service read:
“Kenya has a Conservation and Management Strategy of Elephant in place to guide elephant recovery strategies. I am following keenly on its implementation and I am happy with the progress we are making since its launch in year 2012 that has seen our elephant population steadily grow from 16,000 in 1989 to 34,800 by end of 2019 which is more than double the population in the 90s – Kenya Wildlife Service Director General Brigadier (Rtd) John Waweru”
There’s no better news during current times, than the news of nature healing itself.