Al-Shabaab - the extremist group behind the Kenyan mall massacre - is believed to have funded its terrorist attack by poaching endangered species in the country's national parks.
Authorities have confirmed a probe has been launched into claims that the group, linked with al Qaeda, are behind the poaching of rhinos and elephants, as an animal 'head count' is launched in Kenya and Tanzania at the Amboseli National Park in Kajiado County.
Hillary Clinton recently unveiled an $80 million plan to tackle elephant poaching in Africa.
She warned that money from the wildlife crime could be helping to fund terrorist groups - including the al-Shabaab group that launched the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya last month, a theory which is backed by elephant conservation groups.
Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2450807/Kenya-mall-massacre-terrorists-funded-poaching.html
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KENYA MALL MASSACRE OF SEPTEMBER 2013:
'MILITANTS' TORTURED PEOPLE, MUTILATED THEM, REMOVED THEIR EYES, EARS, NOSES.
THEY DROVE KNIVES INSIDE CHILDREN AND LEFT PEOPLE HANGING FROM HOOKS.
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More on elephants on this blog:
Elephants face extinction unless ivory trade is banned - They may disappear in as little as ten years at this rate of poaching.
Ivory buyers - shame on you -
Brother of German Universal Circus Rentz's owner turns the drowning death of an elephant into a clowning show
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