The Serengeti has had its first birth of an eastern black rhino calf in many years. It was born to a female who was part of the translocation project carried out by grumeti fund in 2019. This is great news for the future of this critically endangered species.
In case you missed it: Rare black rhinos relocated to Tanzania in Serengeti repopulation plan in 2019: Tanzania has flown in nine black rhinos to its Serengeti national park from South Africa as part of efforts to restore its population of the critically endangered species.
Rampant poaching during the 1960s and 1970s in the Serengeti, famed for its sweeping planes and Africa’s most spectacular wildebeest migration, devastated the population of rare east African black rhinos in Tanzania.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) estimates there were only 133 left in Tanzania by 2015.