By Kevin Sieff
A family of elephants walks after cooling themselves in a pond during a census at the Amboseli National Park, 290km south-east of Kenya's capital Nairobi, in 2013. Photo: Reuters
Nairobi: (click here) While the world mourned Cecil, the 13-year-old lion that was allegedly shot by a American hunter, dentist Walter Palmer, in Zimbabwe, another devastating poaching incident was quietly carried out in Kenya.
Poachers killed five elephants in Tsavo West National Park on Monday night. The carcasses were recovered by rangers on Tuesday morning — what appeared to be an adult female and her four offspring, their tusks hacked off....
