Billionaire-Backed Nonprofit Begins Relocating Key Rhino Herd
- African Parks donates 40 out of herd of 2,000 captive animals
- Nonprofit is backed by Walton, Buffett Family Foundations
The translocation is the first step in a plan to relocate 15% of the global population of the white rhinos.
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A billionaire-backed nonprofit has begun relocating captive-bred southern white rhinos to protected wild areas after the purchase of the world’s biggest privately-owned herd of the animals last year.
African Parks, whose backers include the charitable foundations of Howard Buffett and the Walton Family, said it donated 40 of the 2,000 rhinos it acquired along with the distressed operation in central South Africa to the Munywana Conservancy that’s owned by communities and private landowners in the southeast of the country. The translocation is the first step in a plan to relocate 15% of the global population of the pachyderms.