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Endangered Antelopes Returned to Kenya in Species Restoration Effort
Four mountain bongos, a rare antelope species native to Kenya, have been returned to their homeland from a zoo in the Czech Republic in an attempt to restore this endangered species.
TL;DR
- Four male mountain bongos were returned to Kenya from a zoo in the Czech Republic.
- This repatriation is part of an effort to restore the critically endangered species.
- The wild population has declined significantly, from around 500 in the 1970s to fewer than 100.
- The bongos have been moved to a private wildlife reserve in central Kenya.
- The goal is to strengthen the gene pool through breeding with the existing population.
- Kenya aims to increase the wild mountain bongo population to approximately 700 by 2050.