For World Ranger Day 2024, we'd like to celebrate our Cobras Community Wildlife Protection scouts who will be protecting Mlevu Sanctuary's two new rhinos!
The Cobras scouts are excited to be welcoming two more white rhino to Mlevu sanctuary soon. Find out more about this here .
The rhinos have been identified by the expert team at the Malilangwe Trust. They were located and taken care of thanks to the great team of ecologists, vets and scouts during an exciting and complex operation last week. This involved locating the animals, darting and sedating them, monitoring their breathing and body temperatures, taking a small amount of DNA for future research purposes, dehorning the tips of their horns, loading them into crates (which for a 1500kg animal is no easy feat!), and then transporting them to their enclosed home for the next few weeks... Phew!
Since then the two rhino bulls have been "boma-ed" (or put in an enclosure) to be monitored over the next few weeks. They are given supplementary feed and are able to relax a little bit before their long trip ahead. The next few weeks are crucial to facilitating a swift translocation.
Rhino translocations need to be thorough, reactive and carefully planned to avoid anything going wrong. We are grateful to be able to partner with the Malilangwe team (the best experts in this field) and mitigate against any potential challenges.
This entire operation is truly a cohesive team effort and on this special World Ranger Day, we'd like to celebrate our Cobras scouts and the hard work they do to protect Hwange's community rhinos.
Help us get these rhinos to their new home and best protect and care for them once they are at Mlevu Sanctuary.
The rhino are closely monitored before being moved to ensure they are in the best possible shape to do so. After being sedated, the rhinos are loaded into crates and transported to a holding enclosure where they'll be monitored for a few weeks.
Watch our video below from the translocation in May 2022 that celebrates our Cobras Community Wildlife Protection scouts.
Thank you to all our guests, friends and donors working with us on the
Community Rhino Conservation Initiative!
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For more information about the Community Rhino Conservation Initiative, contact us here
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