Kenya 関心 over UK elephant 'rewilding' 事業/計画(する)

Conservationists warn that poaching and habitat destruction, particularly due to land conversion for agriculture, is  devastating elephant numbers across Africa

Conservationists 警告する that poaching and habitat 破壊, 特に 予定 to land 転換 for 農業, is 破滅的な elephant numbers across Africa

Kenya 発言する/表明するd 関心 Wednesday over 計画(する)s by an animal charity to 飛行機で行く a herd of elephants from a British zoo to Kenya for "rewilding".

The Aspinall 創立/基礎 said it 計画(する)s to take the elephants on a Boeing 747, dubbed the Dumbo jet, from southern England to their new home 7,000 kilometres (4,500 miles) away.

The charity said it would work with anti-poaching teams to help 確実にする the long-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 生き残り of the 13 animals -- 含むing three babies -- once they reach one of two 場所/位置s under consideration in southern Kenya.

But Kenya's 省 of 観光旅行,事業 and 野性生物 said it "公式文書,認めるd with 関心" the 報告(する)/憶測s in the British マスコミ about what the charity has 述べるd as the first rewilding 事業/計画(する) of its 肉親,親類d.

"The 省 wants to 明言する/公表する that neither them nor the Kenya 野性生物 Service have been 接触するd or 協議するd on this 事柄," the 省 said.

"移転 and rehabilitation of an animal from a zoo is not 平易な and is an expensive 事件/事情/状勢."

A 省 公式の/役人 told AFP that the Kenyan 当局 would be guided by 明確な/細部 規則s drawn up by the International Union for 自然保護 of Nature (IUCN) on the movement of animals.

The IUCN 警告するd in March that poaching and habitat 破壊, 特に 予定 to land 転換 for 農業, was 破滅的な elephant numbers across Africa.

The 全住民 of African savanna elephants shrank by at least 60 パーセント in the last half century, 誘発するing their reclassification as "危うくするd" in the 最新の update to the IUCN's "Red 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる)" of 脅すd 種類.

The Aspinall 創立/基礎 said the 操作/手術 was planned for next year and that it would be the first time a 産む/飼育するing herd of elephants will have been rewilded.

Aspinall's 長,率いる of communications Carrie Johnson, wife of British 総理大臣 Boris Johnson, said the 計画(する) would support Kenya's economy after the coronavirus pandemic.

"Life in Kent is pretty good for these elephants, all things considered. But Africa is where they belong," she said in an article published in the British マスコミ.

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