KWS lifts suspension on darting of rhinos

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) personnel on board a helicopter try to tranquillise a female black rhino before transporting it as part of a rhino translocation exercise In the Nairobi National Park, Kenya.

The Kenya Wildlife Service has lifted the suspension on darting of wildlife for disease surveillance, clinical monitoring and diagnosis.

The darting of wildlife had been suspended after the botched translocation that led to the death of 11 rhinos in Tsavo last July. KWS now says it will lift the ban to allow for diagnosis of rhinos after the deaths in the Mara Triangle.