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A quartet of critically endangered eastern bongo antelopes, including a male from Prague Zoo, has arrived in Kenya. Nicol Adamcová, the Czech Ambassador to Kenya, symbolically handed the animals over to the Kenyan government at Nairobi airport. This took place 52 years after Josef Vágner brought the ancestors of these repatriated males to Dvůr Králové. The project, under the auspices of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria ( EAZA ), was organised by Safari Park Dvůr Králové in close cooperation with the coordinator of the EAZA Ex-situ Programme (EEP) and his team at Chester Zoo. Other participating zoos included Prague Zoo, Berlin Zoo, Givskud Zoo, Frankfurt Zoo and Bojnice Zoo. The African partners are the Kenya Wildlife Service ( KWS ) and the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy ( MKWC ), which is the bongos' new home.