Zita rayo rinoreva kuti Okapi Wildlife Reserve inogara okapi dzakawanda. Kubva muna 1996, nhamba yacho yaifungidzirwa kuti ingangoita 3900<unk>6350, kubva pahuwandu hwepasi rose hwevanhu vangangoita 10,000<unk>20,000. Iyo zvakare ndiyo nzvimbo yeEpulu Conservation uye Research Center, paRwizi rweEpulu. Ichi chivakwa chinodzokera ku1928 apo musasa uyu wakavambwa neAmerican anthropologist Patrick Putnam senzvimbo yekubata, uko okapi dzesango dzaibatwa uye dzikatumirwa kuAmerican neEuropean zoos. Kusvika 2012 ichiri kuita basa iro, kunyangwe iine nzira dzakasiyana kwazvo, sezvo okapi yakaramba iri muCongo. Muna 2012 kurwiswa kwakasiya okapi yakabatwa yepakati yakafa uye kwakasarudzwa kutarisa chete (zvirinani sekureba sekunge paine kuchengetedzeka) pakuchengetedza okapi dzesango munzvimbo.
Patrick Putnam