Kenyan authorities are investigating whether 15 elephants that died near Amboseli National Park between late June and late July were killed by pesticide-laced crops, after wildlife officials detected traces of cyanide in stomach samples from the animals. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has not ruled out deliberate poisoning but suggests the more likely cause is unintentional exposure to toxic agrochemicals — possibly smuggled from Tanzania — sprayed on tomato farms in the Kimana corridor, a wildlife passage linking Amboseli and Tsavo national parks. However, several conservationists have challenged the pesticide theory, noting that the victim profile — mostly females and calves rather than the adult males more likely to raid farms — is inconsistent with crop raiding behaviour, and warning that the true cause of the deaths remains unclear.