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A conservation project started
nearly two decades ago to create
new black rhino populations
is paying off.
The WWF’s Black Rhino Range Expansion
Project (BRREP) was started in
2003 by far-sighted conservationists
who saw the need to create new black
rhino populations on large areas of
good habitat.
It is now one of th
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of Nature (IUCN) co
that black rhino nu
from about 2,500 i
present 5,600.
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creates new popula
Figure 1: Two black rhino. Picture: Sharon Haussmann
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