A northern KwaZulu-Natal community has become the first to have an ownership share in critically endangered black rhinoceroses.

Somkhanda Game Reserve, now owned by the Gumbi community following a successful land claim against five commercial game farms, is a partner in the WWF (SA) and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife black rhino range-expansion project, according to The Citizen. ‘Empowering black communities to become stakeholders is a priority in conservation, and Somkhanda is an example of where it is really starting to happen,’ said WWF’s Dr Jacques Flamand.
Full report in The Citizen