12/16/2023 0 Comments Southern white rhino population 2020![]() ![]() ![]() In the last 15 years, 249 rhinos have been killed, mainly due to illegal demand for their horns.Ĭurrently, only two female northern white rhinos are still surviving in the world at Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy.Īttempts to save the Northern White Rhino (NWR) through natural processes have not been successful. This has been a modest growth rate despite the global poaching spike experienced from 2008 to 2014 with a peak of 59 rhinos poached in 2013. The report said the national black rhino population has gradually increased and more than doubled to the current population estimate of 897 individuals, while the southern white rhino increased from the founder population of 51 individuals introduced from South Africa to the current population estimate of 840. It hosts 58 per cent of the national white population and is one of the highest rhino densities in the world at 6.99 rhinos per km2. The census report showed that Solio Ranch has the single largest population of white rhinos. This is in comparison to 1,605 rhinos (853 black, 750 southern white, and 2 northern white) as of December 31, 2020. The census report said the rhino population grew by 7.7 per cent with the national population estimated at 1,739 individuals (897 black, 840 southern white, and two northern white) as of July 31, 2021. The country’s black rhinos are conserved in nine states, four private, one county and one community land across the country. The overall goal of the strategy is to achieve a meta-population of 830 black rhinos by the end of 2021. Kenya is implementing the sixth edition of the Black Rhino Action Plan (2017-2021) which seeks to have a meta-population of at least 2,000 black rhinos of the eastern African subspecies. It accounted for 853 black rhinos, 750 southern white rhinos, and two northern white rhinos. Kenya, the report said, has the third-largest population of rhinos in Africa after South Africa and Namibia.īy the end of 2020, the country had a rhino population of 1,605. The groundbreaking census established that the country is home to 1,739 rhinos, among them two northern white rhino species, 897 black rhinos, and 840 southern white rhinos. Overall, there has been a more than 2.6 per cent annual population increase since 1989. The report showed that the elephant range extends beyond the protected prea, heightening human-elephant conflicts. It showed there was an interaction between the Tsavo, Amboseli, and Mara ecosystems, hence the need to expand the elephant census blocks for the respective ecosystems. This has been mainly due to changes in the aerial census blocks to incorporate areas where other monitoring approaches have generated new knowledge on elephant presence," the report said. “The elephant range area has continually increased in Kenya in the last two decades. The Laikipia-Samburu-Marsabit had 6,867 while the Maasai Mara ecosystem had 2,595 jumbos. The Laikipia-Samburu-Marsabit ecosystem had the second-highest population with 6,950 elephants–a density of 0.2 elephants per km2.Īberdare Conservation area dung count was 4,019, while Amboseli ecosystem individual registration was 1,887. Tsavo ecosystem hosts the largest wild elephant population of 14,879, representing a density of 0.33 jumbos per km2. The Mara and Amboseli West Kilimanjaro ecosystems accounted for 11,681km2 and 37,937km2 respectively. It is followed by the Samburu-Laikipia ecosystem with 37,937km2. The Tsavo ecosystem accounts for more than 37 per cent of the national elephant range, which is estimated at 49,000km2. These include the northern coast (the Tsavo-Chyulu-Amboseli Kilimanjaro complex), the Aberdare (Mt Kenya-Laikipia-Samburu-Northern Area complex), the Nguruman (Mara Serengeti complex) and Nasolot-Rimoi-Kerio Valley. The units form the five main contiguous elephant ranges as highlighted in the previous strategy. The elephants, according to the report, are spread across 13 ecological units which include protected areas and adjacent community areas. The census report showed that Kenya has 36,280 savanna elephants, which is the fourth-largest population in the world after Zimbabwe, Botswana and Tanzania. The Sh250 million drive was fully funded by the government and was executed by the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, the Kenya Wildlife Service and the newly created Wildlife Research and Training Institute. ![]() The census covering both the land and aquatic wildlife was launched on May 7 by Tourism CS Najib Balala at Shimba Hills National Reserve in Kwale county. The government conducted a national wildlife census this year. ![]()
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