Elephant and rhino experts plan survival strategies

fewer than 700 in wild (Wankie meeting)

Black rhino have suffered massive declines in numbers in the past decade, for example they have probably decreased by 90% in Kenya alone. It is estimated that there are now between 15,000 and 18,000 surviving in 18 countries.

2500 in South Africa and 300 elsewhere in the region

Ceratotherium simum thought to be extinct until a few were found in Natal at the turn of the century.