The recent baby boom at the nonprofit refuge also includes Tonks, an endangered mountain bongo. The forest antelope has become fast friends with Tidbit, which was the first southern black rhino ...

Some of the mountain bongos that were repatriated from US at the Mountain Bongo and Rhino sanctuary in Meru County. [Phares Mutembei, Standard] On March 25, 2024, 17 mountain bongos—the world's ...

The bongo selected for the Texas hunt needed routine medical testing, for instance, so it would have been sedated anyway. ... director of the London-based charity Save the Rhino International.

It is a collaborative effort involving the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), DHL, Kenya Veterinary Services, the Meru County Government, the Meru Bongo and Rhino Conservation Trust (MBRCT), Lewa ...

Rhino with her male calf at Sera Rhino Sanctuary/file. The population of rhinos in Kenya has increased by 497 in the last four years, a report by the Economic Survey 2025 has stated.