Up to 80 African
rhinos will be sent to Australia as part of the Australian Rhino Project
breeding program. The Australian Rhino Project aims to bring the African
rhinos to the Monarto Zoo in South Australia and the Taronga Zoo in Sydney to
ensure their survival.
Monarto Zoo
established the Australian Rhino Project three years ago, after having rhinos
since 2002. Since 2002 the zoo has bred five rhinos. The Monarto Zoo currently
has six white rhinos and two black rhinos. About 30 of the proposed 80 African
rhinos will be eventually be housed at Monarto.
First Commonwealth
Government approval and quarantine is required. The quarantine zoo is the
Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo. Initially six rhinos will arrive at the Western
Plains Zoo in 2016 from South Africa, with three of them destined for Monarto.
The National Zoo in
Canberra, the capital of Australia, also has rhinos (top photograph).
Tbilisi Zoo in Georgia
has one rhino. Its companions are a couple of donkeys. These photographs (below) are of the
rhino in Georgia.
MARTINA NICOLLS is the author of:-
The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends
(2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan
Curse (2009).
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