Harvey Sky, Nick http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7824-0045
Britnell, Jake http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1527-7013
Antwis, Rachael http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-8194
Kartzinel, Tyler http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8488-0580
Rubenstein, Daniel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9049-5219
Toye, Phil http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7100-2789
Karani, Benedict http://orcid.org/0009-0004-6233-875X
Njeru, Regina
Hinchcliffe, Danielle
Gaymer, Jamie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5747-232X
Mutisya, Samuel
Shultz, Susanne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7135-4880
Funding for this research was provided by:
RCUK | Natural Environment Research Council (NE/L002469/1, NE/L002469/1)
North of England Zoological Society
Funder:International Rhino Foundation - Grant ref number:R-2019-9
Royal Society (UF110641)
Article History
Received: 11 July 2023
Accepted: 27 February 2024
First Online: 15 March 2024
Change Date: 26 April 2024
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06167-9
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This project was approved by the University of Manchester’s Committee for the ethical review of category D research (Ref: 0030). The research was conducted in affiliation with the Kenya Wildlife Service, which approved the collection of samples, and licensed by the Republic of Kenya’s National Commission for Science & Innovation (Permit numbers: NACOSTI/P/17/87006/16178, NACOSTI/P/19/1947 and NACOSTI/P/19/310). Kenyan scientists and conservation managers have been involved in this research from design through to authorship. This work is important for the management of both study species in Kenya, and the research questions were developed in conversations with reserve managers and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) about the information required to improve conservation efforts. Reserve managers and rangers were fundamental to designing and carrying out the fieldwork protocol, and they provided the black rhino demographic data. Scientists at ILRI facilitated and contributed to the lab work. All the resulting data is available to the study reserves and KWS, and a summary of the conservation importance of the work will also be made freely available after publication. Five of the authors are at Kenyan institutions, and the work of other local conservation managers and scientists is mentioned in the acknowledgements. We cite research by Kenyan authors on both study species and the wider Laikipia ecosystem.