Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Police are pursuing suspects believed to have fatally shot a community ranger and seriously injured another during a shoot-out near Voi town. On Friday morning, the Kenya Wildlife Service received information from Rukinga Ranch that gunshots had been heard from within the ranch….. ...

A community is accusing the African world life Foundation, The Nature conservancy, Kenya Wildlife Service and others for continuously trampling on their rights and scheming to illegally evict the Samburu people from their land(kisargei/Elan downs in Laikipia East District. The Community has appealed on the Centre for International Human Rights Law and Advocacy CIHRA to pursue any legal means necessary to hold those accountable for the current unlawful actions against this poor and marginalized Samburu community….....

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Abdullahi Mohammed, an wildlife ranger, was killed in the line of duty in Kenya this weekend by elephant poachers. A ranger with the conservation organization Wildlife Works, Mohammed was shot by poachers in Wildlife Works Kasigau Corridor project, a REDD program (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation)...

Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Police are pursuing suspects believed to have fatally shot a community ranger and seriously injured another during a shoot-out near Voi town. On Friday morning, the Kenya Wildlife Service received information from Rukinga Ranch that gunshots had been heard from within the ranch. ...

Proudly pointing to her newly bought T-shirt, Sarah Mukei reads out animals printed on the front, a treasured souvenir of a family's trip from her home in Kenya's capital to Nairobi's national park. "Elephant, lion, buffalo and rhino, leopard," the 10-year old reads, adding she had just seen three of the "big five" animals listed. ...

A new strategy to manage traders and improve security along the coastline has started to yield results with more tourists willing to visit the beaches instead of staying in hotels.A plan to streamline beach operations—which were a perennial source of conflict between beach operators and the government— has also started taking shape, courtesy of the Sh150 million Beach Management Programme pilot programme. ...

Kenya Wildlife Service is looking to increase the number of visitors and revenues in national parks by inviting investors to put up luxury accommodation. ...

To help conserve Kenya’s amazing wildlife, landscapes & ecosystems we wish to inform all our esteemed customers we wish to inform all our esteemed customers, stakeholders & the general public that we have revised our conservation fees with effect from 1st January ,2012…....

Despite intensive protection efforts from field rangers and conservation bodies, there has been a dramatic 33% increase in poaching since 2010, when 333 rhinos were poached in South Africa. Furthermore, the poaching crisis is not limited to South Africa, with recent incidents in Namibia, Kenya and Zimbabwe....

Kenya Wildlife Service has raised the park entry fees by 33 per cent to $80 (Sh6,800) from $60 (Sh5,100) previously. This is the second time that the tariffs are being increased, as part of a two-phase plan first implemented in January 2011 where the rates were raised to $75 (Sh6,375) up from $60 (Sh5,100)…....

Cruise tourism along the East Africa coast suffered a major blow this year despite a surge in the global scene this year. Kenya, which lies on the western Indian Ocean rim, suffered the most with only two calls by international cruise liners this year...

Two berths at the Mombasa port will be rehabilitated to accommodate cruise ships as Kenya prepares to increase its earnings from the lucrative tourism segment coast. The plans were shelved two years ago when piracy attacks cast doubt over the future of the business...

When celebrities and some of the richest men in the world visit Kenya, they often tour private conservancies. PETER MUIRURI finds out who benefits from the conservancies. It may have escaped the notice of many, but a brief note posted in a number of travel websites announced the closure of Shompole Lodge...

Angry residents in the area took on the beasts they claim have been terrorising them for months now. The killings come after failed attempts by area residents to have Kenya Wildlife Service take action. NTV's Aby Agina has more on that story....

The media should vigorously market tourism as Zambia and Zimbabwe prepare to co-host the 20th session of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) general assembly in 2013.Information, Broadcasting and Tourism Permanent Secretary, Amos Malupenga said there was need for the media to aggressively market the vast tourism products in Zambia ahead of the meeting. …………...

The Kenya Wildlife Service is under great pressure to give up more than 100 acres of prime conservation land inside the Nairobi National Park for construction of the Nairobi Southern Bypass linking Mombasa Road to the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway. This has emerged barely three weeks after Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta signed a Sh15.9 billion loan deal with the Chinese Export-Import Bank for construction of the road, which will be built by the China Road and Bridge Corporation. The 28.6km dual carriageway exiting Mombasa Road at Ole Sereni Hotel and entering the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway at Kikuyu town is expected to arc into the Nairobi National Park at Wilson Airport………………………...

young albino elephant was born recently in Amboseli National Park. This was an unusual sighting in the famous park whose elephants are the world’s longest studied. The Kenya Wildlife Service team and other scientists based in the park are closely monitoring any developments. ………...

A haul of 727 elephant tusks valued at more than Sh200 million was on Thursday seized at Mombasa port. The tusks were concealed in a 20-foot container destined for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. ...

Thirty tourists escaped death narrowly after the boat they were riding in capsized off the Kenyatta Public Beach in Mombasa on Christmas Day....