The Tsavo Conservation Area didn’t receive any meaningful precipitation in July 2023, Tsavo is generally drying out and natural water pans have begun drying up.
The SWT/KWS Tsavo Mobile Veterinary Unit attend to 12 cases over the reporting period, these included 9 elephants, 2 snared adult zebras and 1 adult male lion that was most likely injured as he tried to bring down a buffalo. Several elephant cases were attended to including the translocation of 2 rogue elephant bulls involved in separate human-wildlife conflict incidents; treatment of 4 elephants for lameness acquired from natural causes; treatment of 2 elephant bulls with spear injuries; and an autopsy on a female elephant calf that died from congenital muscular dystrophy according to the post-mortem findings.