A charge to move 14 black rhino from Nairobi to a home park in southern Kenya went awfully wrong , with eight animals now stagnant , one anon. wildlife official has said . The project to preface the rhinos to the fresh create Tsavo East National Park has now been put on appreciation and the continue six are being kept under close supervision .
The original plan was to move the animals from Kenya ’s capital to the park in the hope that it would bolster up the number of black-market rhinoceros in the area . Transportation is a common strategy and has only latterly been used to re - introduce inglorious rhino toChadandRwanda , but it requires careful planning and execution .
" Moving rhino is complicated , cognate to moving gold bullion , it requires highly deliberate preparation and security due to the value of these rare animals , " Paula Kahumbu , a Kenyan conservationist who works with WildlifeDirect , said in a instruction . " Rhino translocations also have major public assistance considerations and I dread to think of the suffering that these poor brute endured before they died . We need to have a go at it what went incorrectly so that it never happens again . "
Eleven of the rhinos had been remove to the park when the Kenyan government made the announcement on Friday . The design was to move 14 in total .
suffer the rhinos is " a complete disaster " , Kahumbu secern theAssociated Press ( AP ) . While the government has been subdued concern the reason for the deaths , they have said that if negligence bend out to be the cause , " disciplinary action mechanism " will be on the cards . So far , preliminary investigation suggest that salinity poisoning may be to blame because the rhinos were ineffectual to adapt to the piquant amnionic fluid in the reserve , the Telegraphreports .
According to conservation groupSave the Rhino , there are now only estimated to be between 5,000 and 5,500 black rhinoceros in the wild and they are considered to be a critically jeopardize coinage . They are smaller and rare than their clean rhino counterpart , but just like their relatives , they are targeted by poachers for their horns – a hot good in the illegal trade for traditional Asiatic medicine . ( Even specimens in zooshave been attack . )
The death of eight rhinoceros is clearly a tragedy , but it is also deserving remembering that the resettlement of animals are , in most cases , successful when apply with care . What ’s more , preservation programs like these have helped black rhino number recover from a low point of 2,400 or so individuals in the 1990s .
Between 2005 and 2017 , there were 149 rhinos relocated around Kenya and eight deaths , AP reports .
