00:02The rhino stumbles and then finally falls.
00:06Now the rangers have to move quickly.
00:09They need to get the tranquilised rhino ready for transport to its new home in Kidepo Valley National Park,
00:15where rhinos last lived in 1983.
00:19The Kidepo Valley Conservation Area used to be occupied by the northern white rhino species,
00:26which is a subspecies of the white rhino.
00:28But now we are taking the southern white rhino.
00:31Because the northern white rhino, as you may know, we are remaining with only two in the whole world.
00:37Two old females, which are in Ojepeta here in Kenya,
00:40and of course efforts are on to work on producing more northern white
00:49by fertilising the embryos using the southern white rhino as the surrogate mother.
00:56So that is a process that is on.
00:58The rhino's return is not only a win for wildlife conservation in the fight against poaching.
01:05Some locals also see the animal's return very positively.
01:10To me personally, my father was a conservationist in Kidepo National Park.
01:15He was a ranger.
01:17But previously, my grandfather told me that the rhinos were here.
01:25They got extinct in the early 70s.
01:29But however, to me now personally, when I saw the translocation of the rhinos,
01:40I was one of them who was overwhelmed.
01:42And I actually appreciate the management of war to actually support Kidepo with the extinct animals.
01:54The conservationists hope that this time the rhinos will stay in Kidepo Valley National Park.
02:00Thank you for the time.
02:02You
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