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A Question of Sanctuary:
The Black Rhinos of Mkomazi
Satellite Airdate: October 2, 2002
 Read the interview with Piet Morkel, Rhino Vet
Read George Newman's Travelogue from Mkomazi, Tanzania
Click here to see the art by students at Kisiwani School.
Every African Black Rhino has a price on its head. In some parts of the world the rhino's horn is worth more than
double its weight in gold. The horn is prized as a carving medium, and even as an exotic folk medicine in powdered
form. It is hard to believe that this magnificent animal roamed the earth for 60 million years before being brought to
the edge of extinction by it's only predator...humans.
Discover how the Black Rhino was returned to Mkomazi and what steps must be taken to provide sanctuary to
these huge, yet vulnerable, animals.
Photo by Billy Dowd
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