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Eight critically endangered black rhinos have died after being moved to a reservation in southern Kenya, conservation officials said in what the conservatives described as "a complete disaster" . Rhinos have been trying to adapt to salt water in their new home, the Kenyan Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife said in a statement. He suspended the movement of the other rhinos and said the survivors were closely watched.
Save the Rhino estimates that there are less than 5,500 black rhinos in the world, all in Africa, while Kenya's black rhinoceros population is 750, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature [19659003] Losing rhinos was "a complete disaster," Kenyan conservative Paula Kahumbu of WildlifeDirect (19659004) told The Associated Press. shocked and extremely saddened by the dead. She called for external experts to conduct a thorough investigation into what did not work, and the results were published in full.
Cathy Dean, chief executive of Save the Rhino, said the scale of deaths was greater than rhinoceros deaths caused by poaching this year in Kenya.
"It's an absolute tragedy to lose seven [now eight] animals in this way," Dean said. "The most important thing for Kenya is to investigate and investigate what has gone wrong, and the Kenya Wildlife Service needs to bring in external veterinarians and translocation specialists. 39, other countries – Namibia, for example. "
The movement of endangered animals – known as translocation – involves lulling them to sleep for the journey. restart them in a process that involves risks. The loss of half of them is very unusual.
Black rhinos were moved from Nairobi National Parks and Lake Nakuru to Tsavo East late last month in an operation trumpeted by Najib Balala, Kenya's tourism. Minister. He has not commented on the deaths yet.
Fourteen animals were selected for translocation and captured. Eleven were transferred when the eight animals died and the tragedy led to the cessation of the operation. It was the first time since the 1990s that black rhinos had been moved to Tsavo East, which originally had a population of nearly 2,000, according to Save the Rhino, but now has between 10 and 20
Kahumbu said that and explain what went wrong. "Rhinoceros are dead, we have to say it openly when it happens, not a week later or a month later," she said. "Something must have gone wrong, and we want to know what it is. 39, is. "
Kenya wants to increase its black rhino population to 2,000 by creating populations in areas that provide good habitat for animals to thrive.
Dean this translocation was not as common in Kenya only in other countries of southern Africa, such as Namibia.
"In Kenya, they do it every three or four years, while other countries do it every year, "she said.
" There must be a post-mortem and we must examine the entire protocol for translocation. "19659016] According to KWS figures, nine rhinos were killed in Kenya. Last May, three more people were shot dead in a specially protected northern sanctuary. from Kenya and their horns have been removed. In March, the last white rhino from the north of the planet, an older bull named Sudan, was repressed by Kenyan veterinarians after falling ill.
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