Kenya Relocates Black Rhinos to Borana Ranch

{{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.}}

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.

“We want to establish a viable stock of the recommended number by the International Union for Conservation of Nature of up to 21 rhinos,” he said.

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.

“We have currently 140 rhinos in the park,” he revealed.

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.

“We have also a scientific prove that supports the new established stock; it has also enough food for the black rhino’s,” he said.

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.

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.

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