NAIROBI: Kenya’s government was under renewed pressure Friday to declare a “national disaster” because of the rampant slaughter of elephant and rhino, with two major newspapers dismissing wildlife authority claims that the situation was under control.

Conservation groups have repeatedly said the state-run Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is losing the fight against poachers and the organised crime bosses that pay them, and that the country’s famed wildlife—key to the nation’s vital tourism economy —is on a fast track to destruction.

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