Kenya to hold an elephant-naming festival in August!

Kenya will hold a festival to offer names to elephants in August. The ceremony dubbed Tembo Naming Festival is going to be held at Amboseli park , which is home to quite 3,000 elephants out of the country’s total population of quite 34,000. People who wish to adopt an elephant can pay to the conservation fund. They will then get an opportunity to call the elephant, Kenya’s tourism minister Najib Balala said on Tuesday.

The elephants’ second names are going to be given by elders from the Maasai community, supporting the animals’ history and profile.The event is scheduled for August 12, which is the International Day for Elephants.

Rwanda’s Kwita Izina, the gorilla-naming ceremony held every September has given the country’s tourism sector global recognition. In May, Kenya began conducting its first national wildlife census aimed toward aiding conservation and identifying threats to its wildlife. The exercise will run until July.

Expanding human settlements, a changing climate that creates scarce resources, and poaching have contributed to declines in wildlife populations. Elephants are some of Kenya’s most vulnerable animals.

Data source: Africa news