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Luckily, Sudan doesn’t have to face them alone – the conservancy has an experienced team of rangers that monitor the 90,000-acre private conservation area and work together with local law enforcement agencies as well. Their tools include GPS trackers, surveillance aircraft, and dogs trained to detect humans and security breaches.

Right now, scientists are considering artificial insemination or cross-breeding the females (of which there are 5 left in the world) with similar rhino sub-species and then breeding the resulting rhinos back into pure northern white rhinos.

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They covered his eyes, as to not frighten him too badly, and tried to rehydrate him on their way back from the Kapama Private Game Reserve.

In the early twentieth century, it’s estimated there were about 500,000 rhinos throughout Africa and Asia. Because of poaching, their numbers have been rapidly dwindling over the years. The black rhino was killed for its horns so aggressively, it was actually declared extinct in 2011. According to Save the Rhino, South Africa is home to 83% of Africa’s rhinos and 73% of all wild rhinos worldwide.

Unfortunately, this last haven for rhinos has also been experiencing poaching. The rhino poaching situation is reaching a crisis point.

A few rangers were patrolling a wildlife preserve in South Africa when they came across a rhino carcass. The animal was killed by poachers for her horn. Hiding beside her body was something they weren’t expecting: a tiny baby rhino. He was extremely distraught and wouldn’t stop crying.

They named the rhino Gertjie and gently took him away from his mother.

Gertjie was then transported to the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre.

There, he was given a safe home where he could be raised. He’s just under 3 months old.

He drinks about 12 liters of fat-free milk a day as a growing baby rhino.

Even though Gertjie experienced a very traumatic event in his young life, the rangers who found him gave him a chance to grow up to be a normal rhino. Here you can see Gertjie getting to experience his first joyful trot around his new home.

Snuggling with his caretakers is also something the baby rhino loves doing.

He’ll stay at the center until he is old enough to be released back into the wild, where hopefully he can live safely.

Even though the people looking after him hope that he will grow up to be a big, strong, rhino, they are enjoying the time they have with Gertjie. Who wouldn’t enjoy giving this sweetheart a mud bath?

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