by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - Non-Governmental Organisation, African Parks have successfully released 120 southern white rhino into the greater Kruger National Park. This initiative in collaboration with the South African National Parks is part of a vast programme to re-wild 2000 rescued rhinos from a private farm in South Africa. This amounts to almost 15% of the remaining global population of the species. The rhinos were in jeopardy of being poached or split apart as part of a liquidation process and were at serious risk of being lost to conservation forever. SANParks Large Mammal Ecologist, Dr Sam Ferreira says there is a 10 year plan to reintroduce the rest of the rhino to various sites across the country...

<p>by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - Non-Governmental Organisation, African Parks have successfully released 120 southern white rhino into the greater Kruger National Park. This initiative in collaboration with the South African National Parks is part of a vast programme to re-wild 2000 rescued rhinos from a private farm in South Africa. This amounts to almost 15% of the remaining global population of the species. The rhinos were in jeopardy of being poached or split apart as part of a liquidation process and were at serious risk of being lost to conservation forever. SANParks Large Mammal Ecologist, Dr Sam Ferreira says there is a 10 year plan to reintroduce the rest of the rhino to various sites across the country...</p>

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