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1. Rhino Rescue Trust was formed in 1985 as a result of an invited after-dinner talk to the Shikar Club by Peter Jenkins, the architect of the Rhino Rescue Project of Kenya. The Trust funded the Lake Nakuru Sanctuary and its development and management plan suggested stocking with a founder population of black rhino and, should the opportunity arise, intro- ducing white rhinos also because there was ideal habitat for them.
2. It is recognized that the Rhino Rescue Trust was started in order to help save the black rhino from extinction and, therefore, to fund sanctuaries. However, the Trust should recog- nize the value of the white rhino as good public relations and the spin-off will benefit the black rhino.
3. My only part in assisting with the Lake Nakuru Sanctuary was in the translocation of the black rhino from SoIio. However, as warden of Solio Came Reserve for many years my ,assistance to Peter Jenkins's plan for rhino sanctuaries' was in an advisory capacity, having had experience of a ring-fenced situation and having been involved in capture and translocation.
I do feel that had it not been for Peter Jenkins's pressing for concrete measures to save the black rhino from extinction, conceiving the Special Sanctuary idea and the formation of the Rhino Rescue Trust, then there would have been no safe area for the excess rhino from Solio Reserve. Undoubtedly Kenya is indebted to the Rhino Rescue Trust for its part in saving the black rhino.
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