Rare mountain bongos return to Kenya

With a deep reddish brown coat marked by narrow vertical white stripes and long spiralled horns, the mountain bongo is the largest forest antelope in Africa and is found only in the montane forests of central Kenya.

It’s a subspecies of bongo adapted to high altitude environments, relying on dense forest cover for protection and feeding primarily on leaves, bark and shrubs.

But decades of habitat loss, illegal hunting and human expansion…