Ecologist - Writer - Photographer
Rhino behind bars

Is this the future for the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum): behind bars? With poaching endangering wild rhino, and pressure to legalise the trade in rhino horn, there is a danger that we turn rhino into a domesticated (farm) animal in order to save it.

This image was published in The Conversation in the article Chopping Off the Rhino's Horn and the War on Wildlife Crime.

Location: Northern Cape, South Africa

Photographer: Jason Gilchrist

Rhino behind bars

Is this the future for the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum): behind bars? With poaching endangering wild rhino, and pressure to legalise the trade in rhino horn, there is a danger that we turn rhino into a domesticated (farm) animal in order to save it.

This image was published in The Conversation in the article Chopping Off the Rhino's Horn and the War on Wildlife Crime.

Location: Northern Cape, South Africa

Photographer: Jason Gilchrist