Kigali — About 20 of Africa’s endangered Eastern black rhinos are returning in an "extraordinary homecoming" to Rwanda, after the species disappeared there 10 years ago, the African Parks organisation said on Tuesday. The rhinos are being moved from SA to the Akagera national park in eastern Rwanda, according to the nonprofit group that manages protected areas for African governments. "This extraordinary homecoming will take place over the first two weeks of May," it said in a statement. The Eastern black rhino, one of the subspecies of the rhinoceros, is in critical danger of extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Their numbers declined due to wide-scale poaching and the last confirmed sighting was in 2007. "Rhinos are one of the great symbols of Africa yet they are severely threatened and are on the decline in many places across the continent, due to the extremely lucrative and illegal rhino horn trade," African Parks CEO Peter Fearnhea...
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