<P> Arrests continue at Nairobi's international airport, where 92 kilos of raw ivory were seized in 2010, and 96 kilos in 2011 . </P> <P> An individual case that received publicity in 2014 was the death of Satao, one of the world's largest elephants, in the Tsavo Trust . Despite Kenya Wildlife Service guards, poachers managed to shoot the bull with a poisoned arrows and cut off his tusks . </P> <P> Trophy hunting, purely as sport and as a conservation action, is now being considered for adoption in Kenya, as such a programme appears to have yielded positive results in Namibia and South Africa under a programme titled "Community - Based Natural Resource Management" (CBNRM). Under this programme, while cash was offered as an incentive for sport hunting, the basic aim was wildlife control on the communal land, providing benefits to the community as a whole . It is believed that trophy hunting might attract elephant poachers into moving into legal hunting and leaving elephant trading . </P> <P> The Food and Agricultural Organization's (FAO) report states: "Trophy hunting is generally self - regulating because low off - take is required to ensure high trophy quality and marketability in future seasons . Trophy hunting creates crucial financial incentives for the development and / or retention of wildlife as a land use over large areas in Africa, including in areas where ecotourism is not viable . Hunting plays an important role in the rehabilitation of degraded wildlife areas by enabling the income generation from wildlife without affecting population growth of trophy species ." </P>

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