4895 x 3425 px | 41,4 x 29 cm | 16,3 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
2007
Lieu:
Namibia, Southern Africa
Informations supplémentaires:
A critically endangered male black rhino drawn to the water hole during daylight hours. This shot offers a good view of it's prehensile upper lip used for browsing trees and shrubs. The photographs are from a night filming assignment to a secret location in Namibia. The reason for the secrecy is that it is one of the last great preserves for the black rhino; poachers not yet having found this remote location wherein the animals are still in relative abundance. The threat of poaching is not diminishing but actually increasing as of 2009, when it was found that it is again on the increase. It has been discovered that helicopters are being used to remove ivory to avoid the anti poaching forces. The funding for this is believed to come from China where ivory is still sold.
