Air Charter Provider (ACS) transports 39 white rhinoceroses from Namibia to Dallas for three say breeding programmes.
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Lyndee du Toit, CEO of ACS Africa, commented: “The cause of this project is to responsibly and ethically preserve the endangered white rhino population and withhold the Namibian rhinos’ irregular genetics against poaching. It’s a long way the largest translocation of rhino ever undertaken and required many months of careful planning, working in shut collaboration with the conservation and relocation firm and the airline.
“Over the previous few years now we beget been interested by several flights transporting these beautiful creatures, so are effectively-versed in what is required from our facet. In 2021 we arranged a constitution to proceed 30 rhinos from a South African reserve to their recent home in Rwanda, in what became then the largest single translocation project. This most recent flight, with 39, becomes essentially the most rhinos ever to beget flown on one aircraft.
“There became an intricate load thought to suit the total oversize containers on board the Boeing B747, however once aboard, the physique of workers of veterinarians were in a role to personally gape after the creatures at some level of the flight to the US. A gas terminate in Sal, Cape Verde, became compulsory as a result of rhino’s mixed weight of 80 tons sooner than touchdown at Dallas Fortress Price Airport, the assign they were unloaded under the chubby supervision of the U.S. Fish and Natural world Provider sooner than their onward journeys.
“They beget got now been released from their quarantine bomas and are doing effectively in their recent environments.”
