Already the once-perennial Njoro river, flowing from the Mau forest into Lake Nakuru where many of the world's flamingos live is dry for seven months of the year.
In the 1990s, the first white rhinos were imported from South Africa and the results of the breeding programme saw the animals transferred to other reserves in Kenya, including LakeNakuru National Park, Sweetwaters Game Reserve and Lewa Downs Conservancy.