The hardest part of the story
Operation Rhino saved the species once. Poaching is the reason that work has never really finished.
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Five places to start.
In the 1950s, Operation Rhino pulled the white rhino back from fewer than a hundred surviving animals, all from this stretch of Zululand. The work never stopped. It is carried on by researchers, landowners and organisations, not any single one of them.
Built for a crisis that starts near here
KwaZulu-Natal is South Africa's rhino poaching hotspot. The Zululand Rhino Orphanage exists because of that.
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Stitching a coastline of reserves back together
One corridor of protected land is being pieced back together on South Africa's Elephant Coast.
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It's not just about the rhino
FreeMe Wildlife and Wild Tomorrow are building a rehabilitation centre near Hluhluwe for the species dedicated centres rarely get built for.
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The reserve whose name means "the return"
Phinda is Zulu for "the return": for the wildlife reintroduced here since 1991, and for ancestral land handed back to the communities who lost it.
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