White Rhino's Dawn

The Story Behind The Image:

Every rhino is precious.

There are just 5,500 critically endangered Black Rhino left and only 20,000 Southern White Rhino.

The white rhino, pictured here, is under constant threat on the reserve as poachers backed by professional crime syndicates slaughter a thousand rhinos every year. This drastically reduces the breeding population of rhino year after year, a tragedy for these ancient animals that breed very slowly, with a long gestation period of 450 days.

While every rhino matters in the quest to save this iconic species, there is something special about this particular rhino we spent hours with in the Eastern Cape.