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Saving the mountain bongos


THE STANDARD
Mountain bongo antelopes are said to be endangered species. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]
Perhaps it is their almost mysterious shyness that makes mountain bongos rare, always retreating into the toughest terrains within their natural ranges.
The Mountain bongo, a beautiful, elusive and coppery red antelope with white stripes and spiral horns, is the largest forest antelope and can only be found in the wild in Kenya. They are only found in their natural habitat in Aberdare, Mt Kenya and Eburu forests.
Mountain bongo has been classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with its population in the wild having declined to less than 100 individuals due to poaching, diseases and destruction of habitat because of human encroachment. ....

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