{"id":517131,"date":"2026-06-03T21:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/517131\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:25:11","slug":"rhinos-return-to-billionaire-backed-park-after-1990s-wipe-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/517131\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhinos Return to Billionaire-Backed Park After 1990s Wipe Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Black rhinos are being reintroduced into a <a href=\"https:\/\/visitmatusadona.org\/\" title=\"Website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">billionaire-backed national park<\/a> in Zimbabwe\u2019s Zambezi Valley three decades after almost all of them were evacuated to protect them from poachers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The number of black rhinos in the valley fell to 400 in the early 1990s from about 3,500 a decade prior because of a surge in illegal hunters crossing from Zambia who targeted the critically endangered species for their horns. The animals that survived were moved to safer areas in Zimbabwe, Texas and Australia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black rhinos are being reintroduced into a billionaire-backed national park in Zimbabwe\u2019s Zambezi Valley three decades after almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[4204,195,1128,37072,18,1015,10952,19,223745,17,223746,133,2461,461,131981,63487],"class_list":["post-517131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-africa","tag-apple-inc","tag-australia","tag-billionaires","tag-eire","tag-europe","tag-green","tag-ie","tag-international-rhino-foundati","tag-ireland","tag-rob-walton","tag-science","tag-texas","tag-wildlife","tag-zambia","tag-zimbabwe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116688291578824135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}