The community saving its black rhinos

There is a lovely story in the Christian Science Monitor about Palmwag, a small town in Namibia that hasn’t lost a single one of its rhinos to poachers in three years. 

Namibia’s Kunene Region is a vast, rugged, and remote wilderness, home to a unique population of rhinos – the desert-adapted South-western black rhino (Diceros bicornis bicornis), which have roamed the arid landscape for millennia. They are incredibly tough, able to go several days without drinking, and are one of the few animals that can feed on the highly toxic Damara milk-bush (Euphorbia damarana).

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