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September 22nd is World Rhino Day and to celebrate this iconic species on this special day we want to send you an update on the Rhinos Without Borders project.

Our most exciting news is that we have started to see the results of rhinos being moved into a stress-free world with water and grazing and the full protection of the Botswana government, they have started to produce calves. Our imports have produced 3 new calves this last two months (making it 5 so far). 

Our other exciting new is that we have enough money now to move another 25-30 rhinos, which will take us over the half-way mark of our goal of moving 100. You all in the safari industry have been a huge part of this success, thank you so much for your efforts.
 

Today, on World Rhino Day, Rhinos Without Borders and GoPro have a way for you to continue to help us raise the money needed for the second half of these tremendous effort. 

GoPro, the makers of small, action cameras (some, I have used in our films recently because I finally realized that it was better to place a $400 GoPro and run away than hide in a hole and have elephants walk over me) have been very generous in supporting us this last year. GoPro were invited to join the Rhinos Without Borders team at the end of 2015 to document what a live rhino relocation and release actually entailed using their brand new Spherical VR equipment. This was the first time that Virtual Reality had been used in a wildlife capture environment, allowing people to immerse themselves into the action. Click on the photo below to view the video (best viewed on a mobile device or Google Chrome).



The video garnered and incredible following on social media and just won the 2016 PURE award for Innovative and Engaging Marketing! 

GoPro has just today released a new video on Rhinos Without Borders (click on the image below to view that video) and have pledged to match whatever donations are raised for this project via their platform. That means that anyone who may have been thinking of donating can now have GoPro match their gift dollar for dollar.

This is the link to challenge GoPro to step up and match your donation!

Thank you for supporting the efforts of Rhinos Without Borders on World Rhino Day.

Kind regards

Dereck Joubert - CEO
Great Plains Conservation/Great Plains Foundation