This is great news and a big win for animal conservation!

We recently had some good news about tigers thriving in India and now we can look to Africa for another animal comeback. Reports out of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park state that there’s currently an elephant baby boom underway. This is great news, as the country continues to strengthen its anti-poaching legislation and take care to ensure that its elephants are safe.

Over the past 30 years, Kenya’s elephant population has flourished. In fact, it’s more than doubled from 16,000 elephants in 1989 to 34,800 elephants in 2019. Those numbers will continue to rise thanks to an increase in births. The Amboseli Trust For Elephants, a non-profit which fights for the conservation and long-term welfare of elephants, states that over 170 calves have been birthed at the park this year. And there were even a set of twins—a rare occurrence.[…]

Source: Kenya’s Elephant Baby Boom Is Helping Increase the Population