Hundreds of animals die in Kenyan wildlife preserves amid region’s worst drought in decades

A man checks on an elephant that was killed by Kenya Wildlife Service rangers after it killed a woman as it was looking for water and food amid drought in Loolkuniyani, Samburu County in Kenya on October 16, 2022. © Brain Inganga, AP

Hundreds of animals, including elephants and endangered Grevy’s zebras, have died in Kenyan wildlife preserves during East Africa's worst drought in decades, according to a report released Friday.

The Kenya Wildlife Service and other bodies counted the deaths of 205 elephants, 512 wildebeests, 381 common zebras, 51 buffalos, 49 Grevy’s zebras and 12 giraffes in the past nine months, the report states.