Great news from Ol Pejeta!

Visitors to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy can now experience what is involved in the care of blind black rhino Baraka, next to the Morani Information Centre.

Baraka, a male black rhino born on the conservancy in 1994, became fully dependent on human care when he lost the sight of both eyes in mid 2008, and had to be put under the care of rangers in an enclosure. Later, after the sad loss of Morani, Ol Pejeta’s world-renowned tame black rhino, the conservancy embarked on developing his enclosure into a complex of holding-pens for rhinos needing special care. Baraka was moved into the Morani enclosure in December 2008, with a view to enabling him to take up the role of Morani as a special ambassador for the black rhino programme on Ol Pejeta.

Ol Pejeta is Kenya’s largest Conservancy for the endangered black rhino with a current population of seventy-nine individuals.

A viewing platform has been constructed to give visitors a rare chance to get up close to Baraka, gaining a special insight into this critically endangered species in the process.

We hope that this opportunity will further encourage our visitors to support the conservation of the black rhino.