PRINCE HARRY WITH A RHINO CARCASS |
At
the end of his tour of southern Africa, Prince Harry has shared some personal
photos, videos and adventure stories from his time there, working with rangers
and other conservation workers in Southern Africa. He also highlights projects which
aim to protect Africa’s most endangered animals.
In
these pictures Prince Harry can be seen assisting to save a cruelly mutilated
rhino and dehorn rhinos in order to make them less of a target for poachers. Another
picture has him snoozing on a sedated elephant. Yet another picture shows a
female rhino named Zawadi which his brother Prince William fed in an English
reserve three years ago before its relocation to a sanctuary in Tanzania. Harry
31, said in his personal caption for the picture. "She goes nuts for
carrots and I loved being able to send William this photo."
HELPING TO DE HORN A RHINO |
PRINCE HARRY ON SEDATED ELEPHANT |
PRINCE WILLIAM AND ZAWADI |
He
is a patron of wildlife conservation with his brother William and has spent
three months in several African countries this summer working on
conservation projects while seeking to highlight their conservation work and
skills on his visit Wednesday to the Kruger National Park.
Harry’s
visit to Lesotho and South Africa is on behalf of his grandmother, Queen
Elizabeth II and Sentebale, his African children's charity. He was at
the Kruger National Park today to highlight anti-poaching efforts aimed at
protecting South Africa's most endangered animals, such as rhinos and
elephants.
In
a speech, Harry stated that Kruger was one of the most beautiful places on
Earth noting that its animals were a huge part of South Africa's economy. He
said in Africa 80% of tourism revenue was dependent on people coming to see
iconic wildlife such as in Kruger but the park had in recent years become a
major killing field.
He
stated that already in 2015 about 1,500 rhinos have been killed in South Africa
at an average of four per day. He further noted that if the current poaching
rates continued no wild African elephants or rhinos would be left by the time
children born in 2015, like his niece, (Princess) Charlotte, turned 25 and if left
to happen, the impact on the long term prosperity of South Africa and on the
natural heritage of the planet would be enormous and irreversible.
Harry
spoke in praise of the conservation efforts and announced plans to partner with
and provide significant funding to help train rangers protecting Southern
Africa's endangered wildlife.
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