KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE ON THE TRAIL OF LION KILLERS. Kenya Wildlife Service rangers load the carcasses of six lions speared to death by residents of Oloika area in retaliation after the lions raided a boma (livestock enclosure) and ate four goats, in Kitengela, Kajiado County, Kenya, Wednesday 20 June 2012. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is on the trail of people who killed six lions in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Kitengela. KWS Director Dr. Julius Kipng'etich, while blaming the rapid population growth for the rise in cases of human wildlife conflict, appealed to the public to be patriotic and conserve the national heritage instead of killing the wildlife that is merely reclaiming its habitat and migration routes. But even as the KWS Director made the appeal, lions continued to maul more livestock in Kitengela while in Kiambu a leopard is reported to have killed several sheep. The KWS boss warned that among the options available to the government will be to do compulsory acquisition of the Kitengela area and close the area to human settlement. He averred that whereas it has taken the government and the pastoralist communities in the country a long time to nurture the large population of wildlife in the game reserves and national parks, wanton killing of lions under the pretext of human wildlife conflict is detrimental to conservation efforts. Photo courtesy of www.kfoxtv.com