A relatively new capture technique was used to airlift some of the rhinos out of difficult or inaccessible areas by helicopter. Length:03:28. This entails suspending the sleeping rhino by the ankles for a short trip through the air to awaiting vehicles. “Previously rhinos were either transported by lorry over very difficult tracks, or airlifted in a net. This new procedure is gentler on the darted rhino because it shortens the time it has to be kept asleep with drugs, the respiration is not as compromised as it can be in a net and it avoids the need for travel in a crate over terrible tracks,”
The seventh black rhino population established by the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project, was recently released after an epic 1500 kilometer trip across the country. 19 of the critically endangered animals were moved from the Eastern Cape to a new location in Limpopo province.
Source: fubiz.net
