Thursday, 10 March 2016

Elephant returns to Somalia after 20 years

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This is the first elephant in Somalia to be seen in 20 years:
The 30-year-old elephant took three weeks to march hundreds of kilometres to reach Somalia from Tana River in the northern part of Kenya's coastal region. 
And then sat down for a rest:
Conservationists from Save the Elephant monitored the trek with a tracking collar. They say the journey suggests that the Kenya-Somalia border area is becoming less dangerous. 
It is thought that elephants had avoided the country because of the sound of guns and grenade during the conflict.
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