Heavy rain fell across the Central Rift Conservation Area and the Lake Naivasha Area in May 2024. The SWT/KWS Rift Valley Mobile Veterinary Unit attended to 12 Cases. 7 of these cases involved snared animals. These included 2 animals (1 Masai giraffe and 1 zebra) in the Lake Naivasha Area and 5 animals (4 waterbucks and 1 buffalo) in Mt. Elgon National Park. Sadly, the snared buffalo died during treatment, and even more tragically, it was heavily pregnant and near term.
The team also attended to 2 human – wildlife cases. The 1st involved a common zebra foal with injuries on its hind legs sustained when it was trapped in a wire fence. Thankfully, the foal was successfully treated. The 2nd case involved the translocation of 14 ‘problematic’ common zebras from Naivasha Prisons and Naivasha Police to Solai/Tindress Wildlife Sanctuary. During the same capture/ translocation exercise, the team also captured and translocated 5 common elands from Soysambu Conservancy to Solai/Tindress Wildlife Sanctuary. All the animals were safely translocated and released in the Sanctuary save for 1 male adult eland that was found dead upon arrival at the release site. The team also attended to a lame common zebra in Sanctuary Farm and dewormed a security horse in Mt. Elgon National Park.