Forty years after the last one was poached, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda
Forty years after the last one was poached, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda
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Uganda: 40 years after the last one was poached, rhinos are back in the wild
The return of southern white rhinos to the country comes after Ugandan poachers once wiped them out.
For the first time in more than four decades, rhinos have returned to Uganda's Kidepo Valley National Park, where poachers once wiped them out for their horns and meat.
On Tuesday, two southern white rhinos became the first of eight animals intended to re-establish a population in the park. The last rhino there was killed in 1983, the Uganda Wildlife Authority, which is responsible for the relocation, said.