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•Black rhinos moved to Kenya’s Loisaba Conservancy as species recovers
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Twenty-one critically endangered black rhinos have been safely delivered to Loisaba Conservancy in northern Kenya from other parts of the country.
The translocations were prompted by the fact that Kenya ’s 16 black rhino sanctuaries are running out of space.
The animals were carefully moved over a period of three weeks and released into a fenced sanctuary covering nearly half the conservancy.
The IUCN , the global wildlife conservation authority, lists the species as critically endangered.
Kenya 's rhinos still confront various threats, including climate change, diseases, resurging poaching, and habitat degradation.
Translocations are risky processes that have previously caused animal fatalities.
In 2018 , a similar attempt to translocate 11 black rhinos in Kenya ended in disaster, with all the animals dying shortly after they arrived at Tsavo East National Park .
There are currently no plans to bring additional black rhinos to Loisaba Conservancy.
But the recent arrivals could be joined by other cousins’ in future.
Silvester watches with interest a high-tech mission in Ol Pejeta Conservancy to bring northern white rhinos back from extinction.
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