The cover of the March edition of National Geographic Magazine shows this image of a black rhino fleeing ropers in eastern Kenya in 1968. Its capture was part of a relocation effort.

In this issue of the magazine Peter Gwin and photographer Brent Stirton take the reader to the front lines of the recent poaching crisis in Africa.

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The second image shows a tame northern white rhino – one of only seven of the subspecies known to survive and dehorned to deter poachers – grazing under the watch of rangers from Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy. (Photograph by Brent Stinton)

Transferred along with three other northern whites from a zoo in the Czech Republic, the rhinos, which had not produced offspring in captivity, were brought to the wild in a last-ditch effort to breed them back from the brink of extinction.

Brent Stinton won the first prize in the Nature Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest, “Rhino Wars“,  with this last image of a female rhino, left, in Natal, South Africa, that four months earlier survived a brutal dehorning by poachers who used a chainsaw to remove her horns and a large section of bone in this area of her skull, in the Tugela Private Game Reserve, on November 9 2010.

Also view three previous posts on the endangered black rhino  1. here,  2. here, and 3. here,
Via: National Geographic