Ol Pejeta, DSWT

hellokelly

When at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, do you get to see the last living male northern white Rhino?

I really want to visit the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya at the end of the Tauck trip. I booked a hotel room for an extra night. Has anyone ever visited the DSWT? Any suggestions?

AlanS

There were six endangered Northern White (square-lipped) rhinoceros remaining at Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic) four of which were transferred to Ol Pajeta in 2009. One of the four died in 2014. The last of the two remaining in the Czech Republic died in 2015.

The three (two females and a male) breeding Northern White Rhinos remaining at Ol Pajeta are guarded 24 hours a day, and we did not get to see them in June 2015. None of the three are in the best condition to mate. If a scientific breeding experiment to develop northern white rhino embryos and implant them (artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization or embryo transfer) in female Southern white rhinos at the San Diego Zoo is unsuccessful, they will be the last.

A couple of links:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/africa/kenya-northern-white-rhino/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/northern-white-rhino-conservation_us_57736e15e4b0d1f85d47c9f5

You get to see other rhinos at Ol Pajeta and might possibly see them again in the Mara.

Ol Pajeta. NOT Northern White Rhinos:



Masai Mara. NOT Northern White Rhinos: