Huduma ya Wanyamapori ya Kenya hivi karibuni imeanza kuhamisha vifaru 10 wazungu wa kusini kutoka Hifadhi ya Kitaifa ya Ziwa Nakuru kwenda Hifadhi ya Kitaifa ya Nairobi, baada ya hali ya ukame huko Nakuru kuwa mbaya. KWS pia ilisema kwamba uhamishaji zaidi huenda ukalazimika kulinda vifaru katika Hifadhi ya Kitaifa ya Ziwa Nakuru kutokana na athari za ukame.
Mwanzoni mwa miaka ya 1980, Hifadhi ya Kitaifa ya Ziwa Nakuru iligeuzwa kuwa mbuga ya kwanza ya nchi kuja patakatifu pa farasi ili kulinda spishi zilizo hatarini sana wakati huo na uzio wa bustani nzima ulikamilishwa na uzio wa umeme ulioundwa maalum, ambao ulisaidia kufanya faru huyo mpango wa kuzaa mafanikio makubwa. Kwa kweli, faru kadhaa kwa zaidi ya miaka tayari wamehamishiwa kwenye mbuga zingine ili kuweka idadi ya kifaru na kuruhusu kuzaa porini.
Uwezo wa kubeba Hifadhi ya Kitaifa ya Ziwa Nakuru umefikia ukomo wake, hata hivyo, kama matokeo ya ukame, na kufanikiwa kwa mpango wa ufugaji katika kipindi cha miaka ishirini na zaidi imeongeza shinikizo kwenye mfumo wa ikolojia wa mbuga hiyo, ambayo sasa sio tena kuweza kudumisha idadi kubwa ya faru wanaopatikana katika bustani. Wageni wa Hifadhi ya Kitaifa ya Nairobi, maili 10 tu kutoka jijini, ndio watakaofaidika na uhamishaji huo, kwani wataweza kuona faru wengine kadhaa wanapofanya "safari kidogo kwenye vitongoji".
NINI CHA KUONDOA KATIKA MAKALA HII:
- The carrying capacity of Lake Nakuru National Park has reached its limits, however, as a result of the drought, and the success of the breeding program over the past twenty-plus years has added to the pressure on the park's ecosystem, which now is no longer able to sustain the large numbers of rhino found in the park.
- In the early 1980s, Lake Nakuru National Park was turned into the country's first park come rhino sanctuary to protect the then highly-endangered species and the fencing of the entire park was completed with a specially-designed electric fence, which helped to make the rhino breeding program an overwhelming success.
- Visitors to the Nairobi National Park, only 10 miles from the city, will be the beneficiaries of the relocation, as they will be able to see quite a few more rhinos when doing a little “safari to the suburbs.
