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750 Acres Set Aside for Conservation of Endangered Mountain Bongo

23rd July, 2019 16:46:39

Nairobi — The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife will set aside over 750 acres of land within Mount Kenya forest for the conservation of the critically endangered Mountain Bongo.
According to Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary, Najib Balala, the land will help protect the Mountain Bongo, whose numbers have dropped to below 100 animals in the wild.
With fewer than 100 Bongos left in the wild, the Mountain Bongo has been classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as a critically endangered species

Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201907080742.html 

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