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#Repost @smithsonianmagazine (@get_repost) ・・・ Day 5 - Image 1 - #Takeover © @jasonflorio (hop on over to @smithsonianmagazine to see all of Florio's images) - Zulu members of the rhino capture team pose for a photograph with a tranquillised rhino as they wait for the tranquilliser antidote to wear of so they can lead it into a shipping crate. floriophoto.com _ The rhino population in Africa has fallen by more than 95 percent since 1900, to just 21,000 southern white rhinos and 5,000 black rhinos; 80 percent of those animals are in South Africa’s game reserves and on ranches. In a response to the dire situation that is facing rhinos in Africa, with rhino poaching at an all-time high, concerned conservationists teamed together to create Rhinos Without Borders (@rhinowb). RWB plans to relocate 100 white rhinos from South Africa to safe havens in Botswana, where poaching is almost non-existent. Writer, @ToddPitock, and I joined the first convoy of 15 rhinos to make the 800-mile journey by road from Free State, South Africa to their new home in the Okavango Delta. Read the story here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dangerous-work-relocating-5000-pound-rhinos-180969008/ _ _ #Rhinorelocation#smithsonianmagazine#botswana#photography#documentary#rhinocerous#savetherhino#poachers#SouthAfrica#jasonflorio#rhinoswithoutborders#OkavangoDelta#FreeState#conservation#R44helicopter#whiterhino #blackrhino #dehorning #Zulu

#Repost @smithsonianmagazine (@get_repost) ・・・ Day 3 - Image 1 - #Takeover © @jasonflorio - A female rhino is manoeuvred towards a shipping crate by the capture team, as its calf remains tranquillised in the foreground. The movements of the 5000 lbs megafauna are jerky and unpredictable in its semi tranquillised state, and it takes a skilled team to make sure she does not break free; two did when the tranquilliser antidote reacted too quickly - floriophoto.com _ The rhino population in Africa has fallen by more than 95 percent since 1900, to just 21,000 southern white rhinos and 5,000 black rhinos; 80 percent of those animals are in South Africa’s game reserves and on ranches. In a response to the dire situation that is facing rhinos in Africa, with rhino poaching at an all-time high, concerned conservationists teamed together to create Rhinos Without Borders. RWB plans to relocate 100 white rhinos from South Africa to safe havens in Botswana, where poaching is almost non-existent. Writer, @ToddPitock, and I joined the first convoy of 15 rhinos to make the 800-mile journey by road from Free State, South Africa to their new home in the Okavango Delta. Read the story here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dangerous-work-relocating-5000-pound-rhinos-180969008/ _ _ #Rhinorelocation#smithsonianmagazine #botswana#photography#documentary#rhinocerous#savetherhino#poachers #SouthAfrica#jasonflorio#rhinoswithoutborders#OkavangoDelta #FreeState#conservation#R44helicopter#whiterhino #wildlife

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