{{The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has embarked on a relocation programme of 21 black rhinos from Lake Nakuru National Park to Borana Ranch in Samburu County.}}<\/p>\n
KWS Spokesperson Paul Muya told Capital FM News that this will align with the International Union for Conservation of Nature requirement of a minimum of 20 rhinos in a park.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to establish a viable stock of the recommended number by the International Union for Conservation of Nature of up to 21 rhinos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Muya noted that the number of rhinos breeding at the Lake Nakuru National Park had increased enormously and creating concerns that it may lead to a food crisis for other wildlife at the park.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have currently 140 rhinos in the park,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n
He said this was also in an effort to acquire more space for the rhinos and also in a bid to establish more conservation areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have also a scientific prove that supports the new established stock; it has also enough food for the black rhino\u2019s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Lake Nakuru National Park also has white rhinos in addition to more than 5,000 grazers that include zebras, gazelles, hippopotamus, giraffes, warthogs and baboons.<\/p>\n
Even as KWS continues with its conservation efforts, a civil servant was on Monday arraigned in court and charged with being in possession of 17 pieces of elephant tusks.<\/p>\n
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