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Helicopters are being used to transport black rhinos across South Africa as part of the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project.
A relatively new capture technique was used to airlift some of the rhinos out of difficult or inaccessible areas by helicopter. Previously, rhinos were either transported by lorry over very difficult tracks, or airlifted in a net.
The new procedure is gentler on the darted rhino. It shortens the time it has to be kept asleep with drugs, the respiration is not as compromised as it can be in a net and it avoids the need for travel in a crate over very rough tracks.
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