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Johannesburg — More than 40 years after the local extinction, the rhino is back again Walking around the wilderness of Mozambique. Bringing endangered species from South Africa to bring new life to the park and boosting local tourism.
A group of rangers captured and quelled over 1,000 miles (1,610 km) of black and white rhinos and moved them to Ginabe National Park in Mozambique. ..
"Rhinoceros are important to the ecosystem, which is one of the reasons why we are making every effort to move and reach this distance," he oversees. Conservationist Kester Vickery said. The translocation told Reuters. The Peace Park Foundation (PPF) Conservation Group, which is conducting the operation
, aims to move more than 40 rhinos to Mozambique over the next two years.
Project manager Anthony Alexander said the group had already brought certain predators and many elephants to the park and now it's Sai's turn.
Video: The white rhino will return to Mozambique Park 40 years later.
Ginabe National Park welcomes the white rhino for the first time in 40 years after 19 endangered animals ride a truck 1,600 kilometers from South Africa. Rhinoceros was reintroduced to restore wildlifepic.twitter.com/V4bXxH6PpS
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"Complete the existence of historic species in the park is now very exciting," said Alexander.
This initiative is part of a campaign to save endangered species by moving them to safe shelters and giving them the opportunity to increase their populations.
"We effectively spread the eggs and put them in different baskets," Vickery said, hoping to see a thriving white rhino population in Zinave within 10 years. I added.
Mozambique's Minister of the Environment, Ivete Maibaze, said in a statement that this historic transition would also benefit the country's emerging ecotourism industry.
Mozambique wildlife numbers were hit hard by the 15-year civil war that ended in 1992 and poaching.
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