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Rare antelopes to be flown from US in bid to boost their numbers

A mountain bongo. From about 500 in the 1970s, mountain bongos now number less than 100. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Once upon a time, hundreds of mountain bongos roamed Mt Kenya Forest.

But local communities decimated their numbers drastically through massive hunting.

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