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Sighting of the Quarter: Boipuso Born

10/1/2009

Luxury Okavango Delta Safaris - Rhino Birth near Mombo Camp in BotswanaA survey conducted in 1992 showed black rhino to be classified as "locally extinct" in Botswana. In October 2003 a collaboration between Wilderness Safaris, the Wilderness Trust, Botswana's Department of Wildlife (DWNP) and the Botswana Government attempted to reintroduce black rhino into the wild. Four black rhinos, two males and two females, were released into the Okavango Delta on Chiefs Island in the Moremi Game Reserve, close to Wilderness Safaris' Mombo Camp.

The animals adapted well to their new surroundings, but as is typical of black rhinos being reintroduced into the wild, they did not breed as readily as the white rhinos that were reintroduced previously.

Spirits brightened when on 26 September 2009 a happy discovery was made. A tracking team stumbled across a sleeping female black rhino with her recently-born calf. The calf is estimated to be between 3-6 months old. The name of the new calf is Boipuso - meaning 'independence', as it was located during Botswana's Independence Week.


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