Rare Rhino Gets Custom Flight to Africa

By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | July 6, 2016 09:22am ET

An endangered black rhinoceros named Eliska is at home in Africa after a 31-hour flight from the Czech Republic in a custom-painted airplane. 

Eliska was born at the Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic, an institution known for its rhino conservation program. Until recently, the zoo was home to one of the last five remaining northern white rhinos left on Earth; today only three are left at a conservancy in Kenya. 

Black rhinos are in less dire straits than the northern white subspecies, but they are still critically endangered, with just over 5,000 surviving in the wild. They are threatened by poaching for their horns as well as by habitat loss, according to the World Wildlife Fund. 

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WWF-South Africa announces a five-point plan to save South Africa’s rhinos

World rhino day
September 2012. WWF-South Africa (WWF-SA) has announced its new national programme to strengthen and support rhino conservation efforts in South Africa. The plan, which is in response to the dramatic increase in cases of rhino poaching, coincides with World Rhino Day 2012 on 22 September.

5 point strategy
"Our planned projects and interventions are based on a new five-point strategic framework to help protect and increase our rhino populations," says Jo Shaw, WWF-SA's Rhino Co-ordinator. "Within these five key areas, a range of inter-related activities have been identified with either immediate effects or working towards a long-term solution."

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