KWS decries widespread bushmeat trade in the Tsavo ecosystem

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Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) personnel on board a helicopter try to tranquillise a female black rhino before transporting it as part of a rhino translocation exercise In the Nairobi National Park, Kenya, June 26, 2018. [REUTERS/Baz Ratner]

The Kenya Wildlife Service has raised an alarm over the widespread sale and consumption of game meat in the vast Tsavo Conservation Area (TCA).

KWS warned that the trend is severely affecting wildlife conservation efforts in Taita Taveta County.

Senior KWS officials said that poachers were indiscriminately killing wildlife, especially the small game, for food and trade.