08.09.2019 | Mariana Balt, Editor
The park's black rhino population has increased from about 400 to 700 in recent years, but every new arrival is welcome.
If the shoe suits you, put it on.
Hopefully this is exactly what a black rhino cow from the Kruger National Park will also feel about the expectations her benefactors have for her and the future.
Although the first prize would be her release back into the wild, her caregivers hope that at least later she will be introduced to a potential partner in a larger camp. Of course, everyone hopes that this may lead to the birth of at least one small black rhino calf.
The park's black rhino population has increased from about 400 to 700 in recent years, but every new arrival is welcome.
Various media have already reported on the exceptional patient in the boma at Skukuza last year.
In a breakthrough operation at the time, she was equipped with a durable "shoe" to repair her crushed right hind leg. In this way, she was given a new chance of life after she was probably wounded by a poacher.
During a recent visit, photographers and journalists could scarcely venture near the boma where she was, by nature, but an upset species. At least there was a quick chance to steal a few photos.
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