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Drought is killing Kenya’s endangered wildlife

September 29, 2022302 Views

Kenya's worst drought in four decades has killed almost 2% of the world's rarest zebra in three months, and 25 times more elephants than normal over the same period. It is starving Kenya's famed wildlife of normal food sources out in the open and driving them into deadly conflict with people as they roam wider, to the edges of towns and villages, in a desperate search for sustenance. Andrew Letura, ecological and monitoring officer at the Grevy's Zebra Trust, kneels next to the carcass of an endangered Grevy's Zebra, which died during the drought, in the Samburu national park, Kenya, September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Baz Ratner Without interventions to protect wildlife, or if the approaching rainy season fails again, animals in many parts of the East African country could face an exist...

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On brink of extinction, a new hope for Kenya’s forest antelope

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March 11, 2022999 Views

Still dizzy from the transquilizer, a mountain bongo made its first uncertain steps outside captivity as conservationists in Kenya opened a sanctuary they hope can bring the endemic forest antelope back from the brink of extinction. A combination of disease, poaching and loss of forest habitat from illegal logging and agriculture have left fewer than 100 mountain bongos in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). A critically endangered female Mountain Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) is seen at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy near Nanyuki, Kenya, March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Baz Ratner But this week conservationists released five of the large chestnut-coloured antelopes, which is native to the equatorial forests of Kenya, into the 776 ...