I-Kenya Wildlife Service isandul 'ukuqalisa ukufudusa i-10 i-rhinos emhlophe esezantsi ukusuka kwi-Lake Nakuru National Park ukuya kwi-Nairobi National Park, emva kweemeko zembalela e-Nakuru. I-KWS iphinde yaxela ukuba olunye ufuduso lungafuneka lwenzeke ukukhusela imikhombe ekwiLake Nakuru National Park kwiziphumo zembalela.
Ekuqaleni kweminyaka yoo-1980, iLake Nakuru National Park yaguqulwa yaba yipaki yokuqala yelizwe ukuze ikhusele izilwanyana ezazisengozini yokuphela kwaye ukubiyelwa kwayo yonke ipaki kwagqitywa ngocingo oluyilwe ngokukodwa, olwanceda ukwenza umkhombe. inkqubo yokufuya iyimpumelelo enkulu. Enyanisweni, uninzi lwemikhombe kule minyaka idlulileyo sele lufuduselwe kwezinye iipaki ukuze kuphinde kugcinwe imikhombe nokuvumela ukuzala endle.
Umthamo wokuthwala weLake Nakuru National Park ufikelele kwimida yawo, nangona kunjalo, ngenxa yembalela, kunye nempumelelo yenkqubo yokuzala kwiminyaka engamashumi amabini anesibini edlulileyo yongeze uxinzelelo kwi-ecosystem yepaki, ngoku engekho. ixesha elide likwazi ukugcina amanani amakhulu emikhombe efunyenwe epakini. Abatyeleli kwiNairobi National Park, ekwiikhilomitha ezili-10 kuphela ukusuka esixekweni, baya kuba ngabaxhamli bolu fuduko, njengoko beya kukwazi ukubona imikhombe engakumbi xa besenza “uhambo oluncinane lokuya kumahlomela-dolophu.”
INTO ONOKUYITHATHA KWELI NQAKU:
- The carrying capacity of Lake Nakuru National Park has reached its limits, however, as a result of the drought, and the success of the breeding program over the past twenty-plus years has added to the pressure on the park's ecosystem, which now is no longer able to sustain the large numbers of rhino found in the park.
- In the early 1980s, Lake Nakuru National Park was turned into the country's first park come rhino sanctuary to protect the then highly-endangered species and the fencing of the entire park was completed with a specially-designed electric fence, which helped to make the rhino breeding program an overwhelming success.
- Visitors to the Nairobi National Park, only 10 miles from the city, will be the beneficiaries of the relocation, as they will be able to see quite a few more rhinos when doing a little “safari to the suburbs.
