A wild lion believed to be one of the oldest in the world has been killed. The Lion Guardians, a conservation charity, announced the death of Loonkiito, the 19-year-old male lion.

Ten lions have been killed in southern Kenya this past week, including six on Saturday alone, as human-wildlife conflict escalates in the region, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

For starters, Kenya's tourism sector hit a record high in 2024, welcoming 2.4 million tourists, the highest number ever recorded, according to Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano.

Thirteen elephants born in captivity in the Europe will board a Boeing 777 cargo plane in June and be flown to Kenya, where they will be released into the wild.

In the wild, the youngsters would take refuge under their mothers. But their physical care is just part of keeping them alive and healthy. "Baby elephants are extremely fragile," Daphne tells me.

One elephant is killed in Africa every 15 minutes. The lucky few who survive the poachers’ attacks face the challenge of learning to live in the wild again.

Over the course of six weeks in the global seminar "Documentary Filmmaking in Kenya: The Art of Science Storytelling," 15 Princeton undergraduates and five Kenyan students — some of whom had never ...