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NAIROBI: A tenth critically endangered black rhino has been reported dead after a botched operation to move the animals to a new reserve in southern Kenya, the country's tourism ministry said on Thursday (Jul 26).
The One Surviving Animal from last month's attempt to transfer 11 rhinos from Nairobi and Lake Nakuru national parks to Tsavo East
Tourism Minister Najib Balala, who had ordered detectives to The fiasco, said at a briefing in Nairobi that several of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officials involved in the deadly operation had been suspended.
"Yesterday the tenth rhino died. It was treated with rhino, "he said.
" According to the inquiry team the cause of all the deaths was … multiple stress syndrome int ensigned by salt poisoning, "he added, admitting there had been" negligence "by the transfer team
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Last week the minister suggests that the rhinos may have become dehydrated and died after drinking in their new habitat.
Save the Rhinos There are less than 5,500 black rhinos in The world, all of them in Africa, while Kenya's black rhino population stands at 750, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature.
Between 2005 and 2017, 147 black rhinos were introduced into new habitats in Kenya, the tourism ministry said.
According to KWS figures, nine rhinos have been killed in Kenya last year. while in the last year of the month of birth of an elderly person in the United States of America, an elderly person named Sudan, was put down by Kenyan vets after falling
Rhinos have few natural predators because of their size and weight. They are highly valued in parts of Asia where they are believed to have medicinal qualities.
Huge demand from China and Vietnam where the horns can fetch tens of thousands of dollars to a collapse in the number of rhinos in the wild .
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