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Feb. 25, 2018: Meeting Obama at Zika Rhino Sanctuary

 

On this 77 hectare park, white rhinos were reintroduced into Uganda. Obama, the first white rhinoceros born in Uganda since 1983, is everybody’s darling.  Born in 2009 to an American mother donated by Disney World and a Kenyan father, he represents the very successful start of reintroducing rhinos to protected areas in Uganda. His parents arrived in 2005 and two more rhino babies have been born since 2009.

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Finding the rhinos is easy: 2 armed rangers are following each animal on a 24 / 7 basis, to avoid poaching.  And it is successful: from 10 rhinos brought here, the number has risen to 20 in 2017.  Meeting these impressive creatures is done on foot.

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