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- Four mountain bongos were flown from Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic to Nairobi and placed at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy after quarantine.
- Kenya Wildlife Service director-general Erustus Kanga said the new animals will strengthen the gene pool of the 102 bongos already at the conservancy.
- The national recovery plan aims to raise the wild mountain-bongo population to about 700 by 2050 despite past losses from tick-borne disease.
