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Rhinos Without Borders
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Rhinos Without Borders

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Rhino populations across Africa have fallen to roughly 20,000 animals in the wild, with poachers killing one for its horn every seven and a half hours. Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert respond by setting up Rhinos Without Borders, a partnership between the Great Plains Foundation and &Beyond that moves rhinos out of high-poaching areas in South Africa to better-protected land in Botswana. The film follows the logistics of that relocation, capturing the animals, trucking and flying them across the border, and releasing them into new territory, a plan that aims to move 100 rhinos in total. It checks in on the early results, including three calves born to relocated females, as evidence that the approach is working. The Jouberts frame rhino protection as bigger than one species, arguing that a landscape safe enough for rhinos tends to be safe for everything else living in it, from insects up to elephants. The film stays close to the mechanics of conservation rather than abstract advocacy: trucks, tracking collars, and a border crossing built for animals instead of people.