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The Wildlife Conservation Network’s 3-Pronged Approach. The Wildlife Conservation Network’s work falls into three general categories, strategies, and developments that Thomson oversees.
The Fund also supports projects that restore rhino landscapes and bolster protected area management for rhinos in the wild. Organizations supported by the RRF include the Frankfurt Zoological Society, the Mozambique Wildlife Alliance, Tsavo Trust, Wildlife ACT, Save the Rhino Trust Namibia, and the International Rhino Foundation, to name a few.
Rhinos also protect their skin in an unusual way: by befriending oxpeckers. This 8-inch-long bird has a wide bill, stiff tail, and sharp claws. They eat ticks and other insects off of the rhino's ...
The Lowveld Rhino Program concentrates its activities in two private conservancies where the majority of the rhino population lives and where there is still significant room for expansion – Save Valley and Bubye Valley Conservancies. The first black rhinos were introduced into Bubye Valley in 2002 – by 2012, the 100th black rhino had been born.
Another way rhinos protect their skin is by trading services with a bird; they befriend oxpeckers. These 8-inch-long birds have a wide bill, stiff tail, and sharp claws.
The preferred habitat is open country, and the red-billed oxpecker eats insects. Both the English and scientific names arise from this species' habit of perching on large wild and domesticated mammals such as cattle and eating ticks. [4] This species's relationship with rhinos gives the Swahili name Askari wa kifaru meaning "the rhino's guard". [5]
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