{"id":24928,"date":"2021-03-12T20:13:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=24928"},"modified":"2021-03-12T20:13:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:13:03","slug":"rare-black-rhino-exits-uk-for-new-life-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rare-black-rhino-exits-uk-for-new-life-in-tanzania","title":{"rendered":"Rare black rhino exits UK for new life in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> AN eight-year-old endangered black rhino is leaving a conservancy in the UK for permanent life in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Christened\u2019 Chanua, the rhino is moving from Flamingo land resort near Malton in North Yorkshire, England, to Udzungwa Forest Reserve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staff at the zoo said it had been an \u201cemotional 24 hours\u201d as they said goodbye to the critically endangered animal they have looked after for the past four years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chanua will travel to Kent, where she will be introduced to two other female rhinos, before being taken by air to Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her handlers have been preparing her for the moment for weeks, getting her used to her container by enticing her with food, and acclimatising to any potential noise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cShe was as relaxed as any rhino can be in such circumstances,\u201d said resort owner Gordon Gibb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat is really testament to the hard work of her animal trainers. She\u2019s now on to the first stage of her journey back to her natural habitat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chanua is the second black rhino to be released into the wild by the resort, with the first, Olmoti, travelling to Rwanda\u2019s Akagera National Park last summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gibb said such conservation schemes are a passion for the resort team under its mission statement. Recalling the moment he witnessed Olmoti released into the wild last year, he said: \u201cIt was a truly phenomenal moment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA lot of emotion comes to the surface, but that\u2019s the end game of what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chanua, who was born in Chester Zoo in 2012, is described as \u201cplayful but placid\u201d by her handlers and animal trainers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are around 5,000 black rhinos left in the wild worldwide and only 187 in Tanzania, with poachers being one of the biggest threats to the species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhinos are hunted and killed by poachers for their horn which is prized in parts of Asia, where it is thought to have medicinal properties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once she\u2019s arrived in Tanzania following her 12-hour flight, it will be around a month before Chanua is released. She will be released into a semi-captive environment, where her dried food and pellets will be replaced by a local, natural diet and she will be monitored by vets before being released into the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania: AN eight-year-old endangered black rhino is leaving a conservancy in the UK for permanent life in Tanzania. \u2018Christened\u2019 Chanua, the rhino is moving from Flamingo land resort near Malton in North Yorkshire, England, to Udzungwa Forest Reserve. 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