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Southern White Rhino

The Southern White Rhinoceros has been put at risk from poaching, habitat loss, and other pressures in its native African range, and so has been brought to foreign zoos, ranches, and breeding facilities, including the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Texas, to create and protect an assurance population.

Interviews

Narrator: Adam EyresTitle: Home to AfricaDuration: 00:01:22Date: October 11, 2021Adam Eyres is the Director of Animal Care at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, located near Glen Rose, Texas. The Center is an endangered species research and conservation facility that hosts over 1000 animals representing 50 species, including the Southern White Rhino. Here, Mr. Eyres explains how the Center is breeding and protecting the rhino, in hopes that it can one day be returned to its native range in Africa, when current poaching and habitat threats subside.Narrator: Krystyna JurzykowskiTitle: Rhinos and Horns, Culture and TraditionDuration: 00:05:06Date: October 12, 2021Krystyna Jurzykowski, the co-founder of Fossil Rim Wildlife Center near Glen Rose, Texas, has been deeply involved in protection and breeding of a number of endangered species, including the Southern white rhino. The rhino is heavily poached in its native African range to supply demand in Asia and the Middle East that is based in deeply embedded cultural traditions. In that sense, Ms Jurzykowski explains here how much of conservation is challenged with changing, and updating, our societies' most treasured beliefs and stories.