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Rhinos Return to Mozambique Park After More Than 40 Years
- Return of rhino seen providing a boost to tourism industry
- Zinave becomes the only national park to have big five animals
A white rhino at a game reserve outside Pretoria, South Africa.
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Mozambique has received 19 white rhinos from neighboring South Africa, the first to roam a key national park in more than four decades after the species were wiped out by poachers.
The relocation of the animals to Zinave National Park, part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park that links South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, is the longest road transfer of rhinos ever done and is expected to boost tourism, the Peace Parks Foundation said in a statement on its website. To date, the park has introduced 2,400 game animals after numbers were decimated by a 15-year civil war.