Picture from NTV Kenya official social media channels.<\/p>\n
Nairobi: The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Saturday announced the death of a 54-year-old iconic elephant named Craig at its habitat in Amboseli National Park.<\/p>\n
“Early this morning, Amboseli National Park, Kenya and indeed the world lost a true icon. Craig, the legendary super tusker famed for its immense ground-sweeping tusks and calm, dignified presence, passed on at the age of 54,” the agency said in a statement issued in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.<\/p>\n
The iconic jumbo, born in January 1972, was one of the last remaining super tuskers in Africa, a rare class of bull elephants whose tusks weigh more than 45 kg each, according to the KWS.<\/p>\n
Craig was a living monument to Africa’s natural heritage, having fathered several calves and thereby ensuring the continuity of its bloodline and gentle character, the KWS said.<\/p>\n
Besides its extraordinary tusks, Craig was adored for its calm nature, often posing as visitors filmed it, and became an ambassador of Amboseli and a symbol of a successful elephant conservation model, the KWS added.<\/p>\n
“Continuous monitoring, anti-poaching efforts, habitat protection and community stewardship ensured that Craig lived freely and safely — demonstrating what collective commitment to wildlife conservation can achieve,” the KWS said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture from NTV Kenya official social media channels. Nairobi: The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Saturday announced the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,1297,1296],"class_list":{"0":"post-1073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-qatar","10":"tag-the-peninsula"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}