{"id":419,"date":"2015-02-02T18:29:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avada.theme-fusion.com_demos\/travel\/?p=419"},"modified":"2018-12-12T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T09:58:36","slug":"rhino-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neu.serengeti.org\/index.php\/rhino-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhino Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>n the mid 1970s, Serengeti National Park had a black rhino population of about 700. However, rampant killing beginning in the late 1970s led to the near extermination of the species in Tanzania by the 1990s. The Serengeti was not spared.<\/p>\n

The Tanzanian government responded to the slaughter with a call for a countrywide survey to gather baseline data on rhinos. This 1993 survey, funded by the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), found evidence for only five black rhinos in the Serengeti, mainly in the Moru Kopjes area in the southwest section of the park.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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