Rhino safety comes first-Endangered Mugie Rhinos Moved « Laikipia Accommodation-Eco Lodges, Tented Camps

Rhino safety comes first-Endangered Mugie Rhinos Moved « Laikipia Accommodation-Eco Lodges, Tented Camps
With incredible sadness we announce the translocation of the rhinos from the Mugie Rhino Sanctuary.

Reality hits hard and rhino poaching in Kenya and the rest of Africa has reached such worrying levels that the species has been pushed to the the edge of extinction. After a series of meetings between the Kenyan Wildlife Service and Mugie the decision was made to remove all rhinos from the Mugie Sanctuary for their own safety. The poachers were becoming more and more brazen as the price of rhino horn shot up – reports now reaching us have indicated that the the price has risen to an astonishing US$ 50,000 per kilogram. KWS had recently increased their armed Special Operations team from 9 to 38 men on Mugie but this was still not proving enough of a deterrent