DSWT/KWS Quarterly Mobile Veterinary Report

During the January to March 2016, 3-month reporting period, the DSWT in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service and their four dedicated KWS field veterinary officers, attended to 71 wildlife cases

During the January to March 2016, 3-month reporting period, the DSWT in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service and their four dedicated KWS field veterinary officers, attended to 71 wildlife cases.

43 cases were elephant cases, 6 of which were treated for poisoned arrow wounds, 4 for spear wounds, 3 for bullet wounds and 3 for snare injuries. Other elephant cases included postmortems, elephant calf rescues, elephant collaring exercises as well as cases involving human-wildlife conflict and natural causes. The majority of the medical cases treated by the teams was elephants at 60% followed by predators, rhinos and plains game.

Out of all of these emergency operations 39% of the treatments had a successful outcome.  This month there was a high percentage of cases which included post-mortems where many animals had died before the vets reached the scene. Other losses experienced included poisoning and some cases which been sadly reached too late to save.  Those 4% of cases given a poor prognosis have been monitored by all parties involved in the operation, with the DSWT's Aerial Unit and one of the Mobile Veterinary Units close at hand should a follow up treatment be needed.  

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