Kenya plans IVF to save rare white rhinos nearing extinction

(24 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nanyuki, Kenya - 22 September 2024
1. Various drone shots of two female northern white rhinos and a southern white rhino heading to a water trough
2. Various drone shots of rhinos at water trough

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Nairobi, Kenya - 23 December 2024
3. Various of Isaac Lekolool, Head of Veterinary and Capture Services at Kenya Wildlife Service, walking
4. Animal
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaac Lekolool, Head of Veterinary and Capture Services at Kenya Wildlife Service:
" The BioRescue consortium has developed quite advanced technologies in terms of reproduction and outside there in Europe they are doing what we call the stem cell assisted technologies and also in the country we are trying to use assisted reproductive technologies where we are doing in vitro fertilisation which try to go hand in hand in efforts to try and bring this species back to life."

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Nanyuki, Kenya - 22 September 2024
6. Southern White Rhino named Tauwo walking towards Mutai as he puts carrots on the ground
7. Various of Tawo
8. Various of Tauwo standing next to the northern white rhino named Fatu

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Nairobi, Kenya - 23 December 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaac Lekolool, Head of Veterinary and Capture Services at Kenya Wildlife Service:
"The importance of us working as a team with the consortium is because we can now ride on the technologies that are already existing - both the Kenya Wildlife Service and Wildlife Research and Training Institute (WRTI) and also the hosts of the species that is Ol Pejeta Conservancy, we can all benefit from what is already in existence and has been tried elsewhere to be able to improve the set up in terms of bringing this species back to life."

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Nanyuki, Kenya - 19 September 2023
10. Various shots of two female northern white rhinos and a southern white rhino grazing

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Nairobi, Kenya - 23 December 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaac Lekolool, Head of Veterinary and Capture Services at Kenya Wildlife Service:
"The public participation in this case is a requirement by the laws of the country. When a government institution wants to go into an agreement with other institutions elsewhere, it is necessary that we have all the areas covered so that we do not have anything that might come later on to be blamed upon the implementers."

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Nanyuki, Kenya - 19 September 2023
12. Various shots of two female northern white rhinos and a southern white rhino grazing

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Nairobi, Kenya - 23 December 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaac Lekolool, Head of Veterinary and Capture Services at Kenya Wildlife Service:
"If we get eventually to be able to get northern white rhinos being born from these kind of techniques either through the in vitro fertilization and also the embryo transfers so if we get the offsprings it will go a long way in showing us that we can be able to save different species in the wild not only in Kenya but the success in this will tell us that we are able to look into the future of other species that maybe facing a similar kind of threat."

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Nanyuki, Kenya - 19 September 2023
14. Wide of tourists interacting with Fatou, a northern white rhino
15. Wide of tourists interacting with Najin, a northern white rhino

STORYLINE:
Kenya is planning to use IVF to save its rare white rhino from extinction.

Only two females, Najin and Fatu remain in the world and are housed at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy.






Rhinos have a life expectancy of 35 to 40 years in the wild.





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