An upside down rhino in the air: not the image of a new film, but the only way for WWF to try to save this endangered species.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himPoaching, business illegal e changes climate are the worst enemies of one of the most ancient and majestic animals in our ecosystem, the Rhino. We told you a few days ago about the sad discovery ofextinction of the Java species, in Vietnam, and they are certainly not doing better i African black rhinos.
This is why their life has been entrusted to a real one journey of hope: a transport by helicopter as a last resort to try to save this species, of which there are now few examples and which for this reason has already been included in the Red List ofInternational Union for Conservation of Nature (Iucn).
There are 19 black rhinos transported from one end of the South Africa thanks to a helicopter: a trip of 1500 km which seems to have lasted a short time, but whose image is the true emblem of the tragic end that we are doing to our planet. Carrying a rhino upside down in the air is something we never wanted to see, but it remains the only way to try to guarantee him an existence.
The "move" is in fact part of the Black Rhino Range Expansion Project, started in 2003 on the initiative of WWF with the aim of saving African black rhinos by removing them from the aims of poachers and creating for them new habitats in safer places: around 120 animals have been transported so far and 7 habitats have been reconstructed. Real trips organized thanks to the collaboration of veterinarians, volunteers and associations who have managed to minimize the inconvenience for rhinos and speed up their rescue as much as possible.
“You have to imagine an animal walking with a golden horn; this is what is seen, this is the value that is given to him, and this is the reason why he must be guaranteed protection "he told the BBC Simon Stuart, head of the Iucn Species Survival Commission.
We just have to wish him a good trip and, above all, a good new life.
Watch the video of the rhino transport Thu.
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Eleonora Cresci
