Kenya’s entire black rhino population will soon be electronically monitored.
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is setting the standard in rhino protection by fitting each of its 610 critically endangered black rhinos with tracking devices.
Starting next week at Masai Mara, black rhinos will be tranquilized, identified with an ear notch, and electronically tagged. The project is expected to take about a week.
The tracking devices ensure that the rhinos will be monitored at all times, even as they migrate from Kenya to Serengeti in Tanzania. So far, efforts to tag the rhinos have been successful, and black rhino numbers in Kenya are on the upswing.
Kenya’s black rhinos are of the eastern black rhino subspecies (Diceros bicornis michaeli). The black rhino population in Africa currently totals about 4,230.
Source: Daily Nation
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