Owner of Eighth of the World’s White Rhinos Begins Distress Sale
- Platinum Rhino is home to a crash of about 2,000 white rhino
- Owner John Hume has said he can’t afford to run project
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An auction for a ranch where one in eight of the world’s remaining white rhinos live began on Wednesday with the owner of the project striving to keep the breeding herd intact.
The sale of the 2,000 endangered rhinos, equipment and the land at the Platinum Rhino Project, which is about 155 kilometers (96 miles) southwest of Johannesburg, comes as South Africa fights to protect rhinos in its nature reserves against illegal hunters who have decimated the wild population.