Conservation Group Sounds Alarm as Somali Giraffe Killings Surge, Demands Urgent KWS Intervention

**A fresh conservation storm is brewing after the North Eastern Wildlife Conservancies Association (NECA) accused the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) of failing to halt what it describes as an unprecedented wave of killings targeting the endangered Somali giraffe. **

**In a strongly worded petition to KWS Director General Prof. Erustus Kanga, the association claims at least three giraffes are being slaughtered every day across Garissa, Wajir and parts of Mandera counties. **

**The allegations, backed by photographs of butchered carcasses and years of intelligence reports, have raised difficult questions…