What's the scariest thing in the world? Love you but kill you! This sad thing happened in Kenya. Last month, the Kenya Wildlife Service decided to transfer 14 precious black rhinos from Nairobi National Park to a wildlife shelter, but the shelter turned into a life-saving shelter, and 8 black rhinos unfortunately died in the process of transfer.
Black rhinos used to be the most abundant of rhinos in the last century, but from 1960 to 1995, 98 percent of the world's black rhinos were killed due to the killings of European hunters and the influence of local settlers, leaving only 2,500; after increased conservation efforts, the current black rhino population has rebounded to around 5,000, but is still classified as critically endangered.
80% of the world's black rhinos live in Kenya, and their main enemy is poachers who hunt rhino horns, and almost every report will mention that the final destination of these rhino horns is China, and rhino horn is used as a valuable medicinal herb in traditional Chinese medicine. To better protect black rhinos from poachers, Kenya has developed a long-term plan to gradually transfer rhinos to the Tsavo Reserve to better protect them.
The most recent operation sent 11 transport vehicles carrying 11 black rhinos, but after reaching the new habitat, 8 of them were killed. The latest findings suggest that it may have been staff who foolishly fed the rhinos salty water with high salt content, causing the rhinos to dehydrate and having to replenish more water, resulting in the death of the rhinos. Kenya's cabinet minister for tourism and wildlife, Najib Barara, said he had called for an immediate moratorium on the transport of the other three rhinos.
The unfortunate encounter of the black rhino shocked wildlife conservation groups, whose CHIEF Executive Paula Kahumbu said it was a complete disaster and we demanded a reasonable explanation and that staff must learn from this disaster to prevent it from happening again.
The Wildlife Service said it had transferred a total of 149 black rhinos from 2005 to last year, and only 8 of them have died so far. The agency will dispatch forensic doctors to conduct an independent investigation and, if evidence of negligent or unprofessional conduct is found, the persons involved will be held accountable.
The tragic result of loving it and killing it is heart-wrenching, and in any case, more and more species on Earth have left us. According to a recent study, the current rate of extinction of species on Earth has accelerated by thousands of times, which is the fastest period in the history of the earth, and the sixth mass extinction has been carried out inexorably and irreversibly.