Vets and conservationists guide an adult white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) out of its transport crate and into the wilderness of northern Botswana as part of a translocation operation to restore the country's lost rhino populations. 21 September 2017. The southern white rhinoceros is classified as near threatened by the IUCN. Rhinos are killed by poachers for their horns, which are traficked and sold illegally in China and Vietnam, where it is believed - wrongly - that the horn has medicinal properties. For ten years now, poachers have been killing an average of three rhinos every day in South Africa alone. Botswana is saving rhinos from poaching hotspots in South Africa and re-establishing its own populations of rhinos having lost all of its rhinos by 1992. *** Local Caption *** Neil Aldrige, Sony World Photography Awards 2018, animal.press
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