Rare Kenya rhinos de-horned

Reported by Straits Times on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 (on January 27, 2010)

NAIROBI - FOUR extremely rare Northern White rhinos recently transferred to Kenya from a Czech zoo have been dehorned to protect them from poachers, a conservation group said on Tuesday.

'With the increase of poaching in Kenya, we are simply not taking any chances,' Elodie Sampere from the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, which is overseeing the animals' acclimatisation told AFP. 'Without a horn, these rhinos are of no value to poachers.'

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