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The Shimba Hills National Reserve is a small national reserve in the former Coast Province of Kenya, 33 km from Mombasa and 15 km from the coast. The reserve is an area of coastal rainforest, woodland, and grassland. This reserve has the last breeding herd of the rare sable antelope in Kenya. The vanishing rainforest antelopes are on the priority list of nationally endangered species in Kenya and the organization is keen on seeing that a national conservation strategy is developed to guide all efforts to conserve the species for posterity. Sable antelopes are highly matriarchal in their social structure and congregate in herds of 15 to 20 individuals, and the most dominant female in the herd becomes their leader.