An emergency helicopter service is rescuing rhinos that get injured or orphaned by heartless poachers. Since its launch in 2018, Rhino 911 has been called out hundreds of times.
Baby rhinos airlifted to safety included one-month-old Lottie, found desperately trying to suckle from her slaughtered mum. Pilot and co-founder of the South African charity, Nico Jacobs, said: “It is very disturbing to get a situation where a mother has been hacked to death and the baby is lying next to her dehydrated needing urgent attention. "Last year we had calls to over 40 rhinos in a period of 72 hours.
That is how critical this situation is.” He explained that if rhino poaching continues at its current level, the species will soon be hunted to extinction.
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