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The Park: Exploration - White Rhino Relocation 1/3 Advisory | Exploration | Map | Restcamps | Sections | Statistics | The Park In this section you can read about the personal experiences of Arnoud and his wife on one of their trips into the Kruger National Park. They witnessed a white rhino relocation.
As soon as we saw what was happening we jumped out of the car and joined the rangers who at that time were unloading all sorts of gear from their trucks and were running to the rhinos. Normally if you pull a stunt like getting out of your car in the middle of the park then the rangers will tell you to get back into your car immediately and they will tell you that if you pull a stunt like that again that you will be in big trouble (and rightly so). In this case the first person to step up to me was Douw Grobler, who is the chief veterinarian of the Kruger National Park. I guess he was in a really good mood because after a short conversation with him he decided that my wife and I could stay with an other group of people that accompanied him (American veterinarians and a film crew). It probably helped that I could understand Afrikaans.
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The
last time my wife and I were in the Kruger National Park (May 2000) we were
lucky enough to stumble upon the relocation of a mother and calf white rhino. We
saw the Kruger Park helicopter flying around and from watching Discovery Channel
we knew that something special was going on. We hurried to the spot where we
last saw the helicopter flying around, and lucky for us it had just landed. At
the same time a small army of park rangers, game capture personnel and staff
arrived in a number of vehicles. They all jumped out of their vehicles and ran
to what later turned out to be a mother white rhino and her calf. They had both
been darted from the helicopter and were lying some 100 meters from the road. 