RHINO RELOCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
Rhinos Without Borders is celebrating a year during which the project has seen the safe translocation of two batches of rhino from high risk poaching areas in South Africa to undisclosed locations in Botswana, a country that boasts a far lower poaching rate. The landmarks attained in 2015 mean that
RHINOS ARE BACK TO ZAMBIA
Forty years ago, Zambia had the third largest black rhino population in Africa: around 12,000, with 4,000 of them in the Luangwa Valley. Twenty years later there were none. They were declared extinct in Zambia in 1998. They had been poached out of existence in the 1970s and 1980s to meet illegal com
RHINOS WITHOUT BORDERS
Rhinos Without Borders (a project launched by National Geographic filmmakers and photographers Dereck-Beverly Joubert) will move a hundred rhinos from South Africa to Botswana. Why? Because South Africa holds 80% of Africa’s rhinos population and the highest poaching rate, whereas Botswana has the