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During the rescue of a South African rhino calf whose mother was killed by poachers, six heavily perspiring men squeezed the sedated orphan into a helicopter whose seats and doors had been removed to make more space, according to a witness account. The rhino’s behind stuck out of the aircraft a bit, but the improvised airlift in February was a success.
A highly determined Rhino caused a scare for its keepers in The Netherlands.
There are no Sumatran rhinos left in the wild in the Malaysian state of Sabah, confirmed Masidi Manjun, the Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister, over the weekend.
South Africa’s police said on Wednesday that they seized around 55 million rands ($7 million) worth of assets from alleged rhinoceros poachers.
