Wildlife · Mount Kenya and Eburu
A future for the mountain bongo
With fewer than 65 bongo left in the wild, rangers and neighbours needed a shared picture of where animals still move, not guesswork from old stories.
The challenge
With fewer than 65 bongo left in the wild, rangers and neighbours needed a shared picture of where animals still move, not guesswork from old stories.
What Rhino Ark is doing
Community teams on Mount Kenya and Mau Eburu run camera traps and map sightings, feeding data to KWS, KFS and the Wilder Institute / Calgary Zoo breeding programme.
People
Hon. Najib Balala launched the national recovery plan as a contract between government, zoos and forest-edge citizens to act before the species slips further.
“I am delighted to be a part of the launch of the National Recovery and Action Plan for the Mountain Bongo. It augurs well for the future of the critically endangered mountain bongo, because the plan has been set up to rescue it from extinction.”
Evidence
Recovery plans, BSP films and trap-line summaries are indexed under Knowledge and linked from the bongo programme page.
Take action
Pay for batteries, SD cards and community scout days on bongo trails.