The French government on Sunday said it would support Kenya's wildlife conservation effort through the installation of a digital radio network and solar systems to beef up the security of visitors and wildlife.

The Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) said on Sunday the security gadgets are to be installed in the Southern, Tsavo, and Central Rift Conservation areas.

Visiting officials from the French National Assembly and French Development Agency (AFD) who met KWS Director William Kiprono said the French government will ensure that the East African nation curb rampant poaching which has increased in the recent past.

The Digital network will be instrumental in facilitating KWS security operations through the upgrading of its current analogue network to a more robust and enhanced digital platform, KWS said in a statement issued in Nairobi on Sunday after the meeting.

The new technology has additional capabilities such as GPS tracking, messaging and vice encryption.

"This is expected to greatly reduce maintenance costs and increase efficiency in communications ultimately ensuring timely and accurate responses to cases of human wildlife conflict, poaching and visitor security," KWS said.

The Kenyan government has said it would deploy 1,000 more rangers to beef up wildlife security efforts to curb rising incidents of poaching across the East African nation. The government said the deployment of more rangers by the KWS will help in scaling up efforts to salvage the remaining elephants in Kenya as 74 elephants have already been killed in the first 3 months of 2013 alone.

The wildlife agency has enhanced the round-the-clock surveillance at all Kenya's entry exit and entry points while sniffer dogs and their handlers have proved incorruptible and have once again outsmarted the smugglers.

The East African nation said it's at a point where it cannot allow further poaching of wildlife because the animal numbers have been reducing at an alarming rate.

Most recent statistics from the KWS for instance indicated that the number of elephants for instance has reduced from a high of 160,000 in 1970s to below 30,000.

KWS said between the 1970s and 1980s Kenya lost over 80 percent of her elephants, mainly due to intensive poaching of elephants for ivory.