![]() ![]() Scientists have been working hard in collecting and fertilizing eggs for embryo production. In 2020, efforts by scientists and researchers to collect eggs from Fatu for harvesting was challenged by the outbreak of coronavirus, a fact that Ol Pejeta acknowledges. With Najin’s ill health, the conservancy feels at a loss in knowing that should things get worse, only Fatu will be left to continue the lineage of her species which is endangered. The next steps in the programme are already underway,” Vigne in a statement. “The creation of two more embryos nourishes the hope that despite challenges and delays caused by Covid-19, the northern white rhino can still be saved. Ol Pejeta Conservancy CEO Richard Vigne offered that the scientific process to produce the embryos gives hope to the world of saving the northern white rhino from extinction. There are now five useful northern white rhino embryos which have been collected and preserved. A multi-agency team drawn from Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), Safari Park Dv?r Králové, Kenya Wildlife Service and Ol Pejeta Conservancy was involved in the exercise.Īvantea Laboratory in Italy fertilized the eggs with semen harvested from Sudan, a northern male white rhino that died in 2018. The collection of the embryos happened on December 13, 2020. The conservancy has successfully had created two embryos from eggs harvested from Fatu who was given birth to by Najin.Īlso read: Experience Kenya’s Wild Safari Excellence At The Ol Pejeta Conservancy Najin has a tumour on her abdomen which has affected the working of her reproductive organs. Ol Pejeta announced news of her ill health at a time the world is making frantic efforts to save the species now under extinction. Najin, 31 years old, is said to be of ill health. Najin and Fatu, the last two female northern white rhinos live in Ol Pejeta. ![]() This is according to the conservancy which has hosted both the last species of the northern white male and female rhinos for more than a decade.
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