The black rhino sanctuaries of Kenya

In addition to the total of 285 black rhino in sanctuaries, a WWFfunded census has produced an estimated number of 85-100 rhinos living outside these areas.There still exist significant breeding populations of 20 in the Ngeng Valley and 12 in the Loita Hills.Other animals are widely separated and include rhinos still remaining in areas which have been heavily poached, such as Tsavo National Park outside the Ngulia sanctuary.Many of these 'outlier' rhinos are isolated and non-breeding individuals living in remote and largely unprotected areas.Although several have been captured since 1984, in particular to stock the Lewa Downs and Tsavo Ngulia rhino sanctuaries, the remaining outliers, almost by definition, are very difficult to locate and capture and hence costly to translocate.