Ua hoʻomaka koke ka Kenya Wildlife Service e hoʻoneʻe i 10 mau rhino keʻokeʻo hema mai ka Lake Nakuru National Park a i ka Nairobi National Park, ma hope o ka piʻi ʻana o ke kūlana maloʻo ma Nakuru. Ua ʻōlelo pū ʻo KWS he pono e hoʻoneʻe hou ʻia e pale i nā rhino ma Lake Nakuru National Park mai nā hopena maloʻo.
I ka makahiki mua o 1980, ua lilo ʻo Lake Nakuru National Park i wahi hoʻāno rhino mua o ka ʻāina no ka pale ʻana i nā ʻano mea weliweli loa a ua hoʻopau ʻia ka pā o ka paka holoʻokoʻa me kahi pā uila i hana ʻia, i kōkua i ka hana ʻana i ka rhino. holomua loa ka papahana hānai. ʻO ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, ua hoʻoneʻe ʻia kekahi o nā rhino i nā makahiki i nā paka ʻē aʻe e hoʻihoʻi hou i ka heluna rhino a ʻae i ka hana hou ʻana ma ka nahele.
ʻO ka hiki ʻana o ka hiki ʻana o ka Lake Nakuru National Park i kona palena, akā naʻe, ma muli o ka maloʻo, a ʻo ka kūleʻa o ka papahana hānai i nā makahiki he iwakāluakūmālua i hala aku nei ua hoʻohui ʻia i ke kaomi ʻana i ka kaiaola o ka paka, ʻaʻole ia i kēia manawa. hiki ke mālama i ka nui o nā rhino i loko o ka paka. ʻO ka poʻe kipa i ka Nairobi National Park, he 10 mau mile wale nō mai ke kūlanakauhale, e loaʻa iā lākou ka pōmaikaʻi o ka neʻe ʻana, no ka mea e hiki iā lākou ke ʻike i kekahi mau rhino hou i ka wā e hana ana i kahi "safari i nā kula."
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- The carrying capacity of Lake Nakuru National Park has reached its limits, however, as a result of the drought, and the success of the breeding program over the past twenty-plus years has added to the pressure on the park's ecosystem, which now is no longer able to sustain the large numbers of rhino found in the park.
- In the early 1980s, Lake Nakuru National Park was turned into the country's first park come rhino sanctuary to protect the then highly-endangered species and the fencing of the entire park was completed with a specially-designed electric fence, which helped to make the rhino breeding program an overwhelming success.
- Visitors to the Nairobi National Park, only 10 miles from the city, will be the beneficiaries of the relocation, as they will be able to see quite a few more rhinos when doing a little “safari to the suburbs.
