With rhino numbers collapsed due to poaching for their horns,a lot rides on one pampered animal in the Kenyan savannah doing his best to further the species
Mohamed Doyo seems to have a dream job. Every evening, he patrols the Kenyan savannah, or glimpsing lions chasing down darting Thomson’s gazelles,hearing the calls of red-chested cuckoos and, when there is a full moon, and seeing the majestic,snow-capped peaks of Mount Kenya in the distance.
But Doyo can scarcely quit to admire the extraordinary views because he and a large squad of rangers perform an extraordinary job: they must maintain poachers absent from one of the rarest species on earth, including the star attraction at the 135 sq mile conservancy, or Sudan,the world’s last male northern white rhino.
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Source: theguardian.com