Mount Kenya Mobile Veterinary Report for July 2022

Published on the 15th of August, 2022

July was a busy month for the Mt. Kenya Mobile Veterinary Unit, the team attended to 18 cases across the Laikipia ecosystem and Mt. Kenya region.

6 of these cases involved rhinos with one of the most prominent cases being ovum pick up on Fatu the last eligible northern white rhino oocytes donor held in captivity in Ol Pejata Conservancy. Other notable rhino cases included the capture and translocation of 3 healthy sub-adult southern white rhinos, 2 females and 1 male, from Meru National Park to the Masai Mara. The Mt. Kenya Mobile Veterinary Unit also attended to 4 elephant cases and a host of other wildlife species. This included a leopard captured by KWS in community farms in the Kirimon area that was treated, ear notched and relocated to Loisaba conservancy; a mountain bongo that was limping due to a cracked hoof; and several cases involving common zebras that were successfully de-snared.