KarunaNews Story

Over four decades after becoming locally extinct, rhinos are again roaming the wilds of Mozambique. Rangers are bringing the endangered species from South Africa to restore life in national parks and to boost local tourism. A group of rangers captured, sedated, and moved black rhinos and white rhinos over 1,000 miles (1,610 km) to Mozambique’s Zinave National Park. The land itself covers over 400,000 hectares and holds more than 2,300 other reintroduced animals. "Rhinos are important to the ecosystem, which is one of the reasons why we’re moving them all this distance and doing all this effort to get them there," said Kester Vickery, a conservationist who is supervising the rhino translocation. The Peace Parks Foundation conservation group, which is conducting the operation, aims to relocate over 40 rhinos in the next two years to Mozambique. This initiative is part of a campaign to save the endangered species by relocating them to safe havens where they have a chance to increase their population.