As a living fossil animal that has lived on the earth for more than 50 million years, the rhinoceros is on the verge of extinction today, but something unexpected has happened. This happened in Africa, what happened to the rhino there?

Zululand in KwaZulu-Natal Province on the east coast of South Africa, where Imfruzi National Park is located, is also a paradise for African rhinos. The reason why it is said to be a paradise for rhinos is that a large number of white rhinos and black rhinos have been slaughtered by poachers outside the national park reserve.

Poachers kill rhinos not for food, but simply for their horns, in the same way as an elephant's ivory is removed, leaving the carcass to bring life to scavengers.

According to statistics from the United Nations Wildlife Conservation Association, at least one rhino is hunted every 14 hours in Africa.

Although the numbers do not seem alarming, the number of rhinos is astonishing. In the past year alone, 600 rhinos were hunted in South Africa.

Compared with the number of white rhinos, the existence of black rhinos is even more precious. In order not to make the black rhinos extinct locally, the South African government has organized considerable human and material resources to deal with the dwindling situation of black rhinos.

So the government introduced a special plan to relocate the only remaining black rhinos in the province to the national park reserve so that the risk of extinction caused by poaching can be effectively eliminated.

Under the monitoring and protection of national parks, black rhinos can increase their reproductive and survival rates.

To say that relocating rhinos is not an easy task, in addition to using more manpower, material, and financial resources, experts who understand the nature of black rhinos are needed. You must know that wild rhino are very difficult to mess with.

Although their reactions are a little slow and their eyesight is not very good, they have super sensitive senses of smell and hearing.

As long as they determine the smell of people or hear movement, they will attack aggressively, and a team of more than a dozen people is no match for rhinos.

The geomorphic environment of KwaZulu-Natal is not conducive to the transfer of large animals. It is located in a terrain dominated by hills and low shrubs, and the traffic conditions are naturally subject to many restrictions.

In addition to the important special equipment on the ground, the helicopter equipment in the air is even more critical.

Bohm Davanwe is the main figure in the relocation project. He has 30 years of experience working with wild rhinos.

He is responsible for drawing the rhino out of the complex environment, and then first observes and judges its physical condition and age, and then determines whether it is suitable for lifting out by helicopter.

What Bohm usually does is, after spotting the black rhino, he approached on tiptoe, making a disturbing sound at a distance of 100 meters, and then hung his colorful hat in the line of sight of the rhino.

But he hid at a safe distance suitable for observation. The black rhino's keen sense of smell and hearing makes it look for the source of sounds and smells. If something that attracts its attention blocks its way or appears in sight, it will rush over recklessly, and head it angrily.

If Bohm determined that the rhino did not fly into the sky, he would use an anesthesia weapon to aim and shoot decisively. The frightened black rhino would desperately chase the shooter.

But soon the effect of the anesthetic would appear, and the black rhino staggered to the ground and fell asleep. Helicopters began dropping slings overhead, and other personnel and veterinarians placed cloth blindfolds on the rhino's eyes and taped ears to reduce hearing.

In addition, they also drilled holes in the rhino's horns to install a GPS tracker, tied the limbs with ropes, and finally hung them decisively on the helicopter's sling.

When everything was done, the helicopter started to move, and the sleeping black rhino wobbled into the sky.

Using this method, Bohm's team safely sent more than 100 black rhinos to the reserve in one year. Next, their team will expand the hunting and transportation range to allow more black rhinos to migrate to the reserve.