19/09/2026
𝗭𝗜𝗠𝗕𝗔𝗕𝗪𝗘 - 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗦𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗔 𝗥𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡
𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘳𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦, 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦.
Matusadona hadn't had rhino of its own bloodline in more than three decades. This June, seventeen came home.
More than thirty years ago, organised poaching stripped Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley of its rhino, and the survivors were moved out of Matusadona to safer conservancies rather than left to disappear for good.
That bloodline has spent three decades being bred and safeguarded at Imire and Matobo. Seventeen of their descendants are now back on Lake Kariba's shore, protected by a ranger corps grown from 27 to 110, with twenty more rhino planned to join them in 2027.
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