Rhinos In Kenya Lose Members

From the times of slave trade Rhinos have been hunted down for there horns and skin. In the entire East Africa Rhinos are still existing in Lake Nakuru National Park. This is Kenya’s first official rhino sanctuary set up some several years ago. Sadly, this park had a double loss, when first copse of a female rhino were found with her horn cut off and later it was discovered that her cub, just a few months old, is also dead may because of hunger and fatigue. It was known to us via a source from Kenya Wildlife Service that the female rhino was actually killed using poisoned arrows prior to hacking her horns off.

The poachers then cunningly concealed the body so that it was only spotted several days following the incident. The source also emphasized that the entire park, relatively compact in fact and greatly fenced, is usually patrolled and that it was only the elusive measures used by the poachers which delayed the period to spot the carcass.

Security was beefed up not only in Nakuru but other parks too were rhinos are protected, in addition to private game sanctuaries and conservancies and investigations launched with the aim of tracking down the syndicate at the back of the latest killings of rhinos in Kenya.

Despite the fact that the poaching rate is still far from the usual slaughter seen in South Africa, Kenya is however seeing an upsurge in poaching activities, for ivory and rhino horn, and a number of arrests for tried out ivory smuggling at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and the chief seaport in Mombasa in current months has also highlighted that poaching is turning out to be a major curse for wildlife conservation.

The reporter would not give the full details of what more security measures are currently being taken and where additional personnel would be employed, understandably to keep operational information out of the media, but make it a point that this correspondent would be fast and widespread

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