MEET MPILO
How a young rhino with an extraordinary will to live has already won the hearts of his carers.
It was the last week in April, a warm day in the Zululand bush, when the news we never look forward to hearing, the arrival of a new rhino orphan into care, came to us from our partner, Zululand Rhino Orphanage.
The day started just as any other, local rangers set off on their regular patrols when, in the distance, they spotted a stationary mass of grey. They walked on with determination, knowing that what they might find would not bring good news.
Their fears were confirmed when, on closer inspection, this was the poached body of a female rhino who, despite, being already de-horned, had been poached for the small stub of horn left behind.