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Ol Pejeta Conservancy
January 20, 2020   day 6

March 19th, 2018 the last male northern white rhino passed away in Kenya

at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy at the age of 45. Around the time this happened,

we had already started coming up with ideas of where to visit when going to

Africa. The last two northern white rhinos are on the Oj Pejeta Conservancy,

both are females and they are mother and daughter. Neither of them can have

kids anymore due to medical reasons. Both these two girls were taken from a zoo where they lived their entire lives before going to the conservancy. Now they are guarded 24/7 from the country's anti-poaching police force, Najin and Fatu get to graze all day in a fenced-in 140-square mile private area. They are accompanied by a southern white rhino, who is there to teach the other two how to live as rhinos. Since Najin and Fatu never got to live their lives in the wild having a friend in there with them, helping show them how to graze and enjoy their enclosure the best they can!

 

 

More information on the rhinos is here in the New York Times Magazine.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/magazine/the-last-two-northern-white-rhinos-on-earth.html

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Ol Pejeta Conservancy ($90 USD card additional)

-Journey Genius Safaris (Tour company)

- $ 164 a piece plus $90 for park entry

+254733977725 Rating (tour and driver) -5/5

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All three of the Rhinos can be seen here Najin is laying down in the back while Fatu (left) and the southern white rhinos are standing 

Baraka the Black Rhino

Baraka is an ambassador rhino and is kept on the reserve to help teach more about the species. He is here because he is blind in both eyes, he lost one in a fight and the other due to cataracts. Because of this he could not survive in the wild so they moved him into a 100-acre enclosure where he surprised everyone as it took only three weeks for him to fully adjust to his new home. Our guide called to him and Baraka slowly made his way over to us. Eventually our guide went over to him and guided him to the edge of the enclosure, when he got there we were aloud to pet him while he stayed there eating. 

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Chimpanzee sanctuary 

In 1993 the Ol Pejeta Conservancy opened its doors to a rescue center in Burundi that had closed due to a civil war outbreak. They welcomed in chimpanzees from the center and established the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary. An agreement between the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the Kenya Wildlife Service, and the Jane Goodall Institute to provide lifelong refugee to orphaned and abused chimpanzees from West and Central Africa. Helping orphaned and abused chimpanzees from West and Central Africa. 36 chimpanzees are currently at the sanctuary. Many of them have been confiscated from cramped and unnatural living conditions, and many arrive with horrific injuries from abuse by human hands.

English and Swahili 

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