The Southern Conservation Area experienced warm and hot weather throughout May and June 2024. In The Unit attended to 4 cases in May and 2 in June. The vet team took a break during the month of June and hence few cases were attended.
The May Veterinary cases attended to involved four species in four interventions. These included the treatment of a giraffe and a zebra for a snare and arrow wound respectively, the collaring of a lion known to prey on livestock, and a postmortem examination of a hyena which was killed after attacking 3 people. Rabies disease was associated with the hyena killed in Ilkilunyet, Chyulu Hills. In June the Unit attended to 2 elephants, one for natural causes and the other for an arrow wound.