In the late 1970s aggressive poaching took the rhino to the brink of extinction.
Evenings are spent under the stars: consolation, surely, for not seeing a black rhino.
One image even shows a woolly rhino, one of the only examples in prehistoric art.
The rhino stood just 5m away, flaring its nostrils in the air to sniff us out.
Chris offers holidaymakers the chance to track rhino while the revenue from tourism helps fund conservation work.
Ignore it, and you can expect to feel the sharp pain of that rhino horn.
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But rhino welfare campaigners say the idea is flawed and dangerous for the species.
Since January, 99 people have been arrested for rhino-related matters country wide, the police spokesman said.
The soldiers were conducting Operation Rhino, which aims to combat rampant poaching at the park.
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Conservation group Save the Rhino estimates that there are 25, 000 rhinos in Africa.
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Poachers saw off a darted rhino's horn, leaving the animal to bleed to death.
Rhino Resource Partners LP shares are currently trading off about 6% on the day.
But South African unions view it like a charging rhino in a narrow alley.
Last week rangers found eight dead rhino in the park in just one day.
They include a giraffe, two lions, four zebras, a rhino and a pygmy hippo.
The bluefin tuna is as endangered as the giant panda and the white rhino.
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The rare black-faced impala is often viewed here too, as are herds of Gemsbok, wildebeest, zebra, giraffe and rhino.
"We must also look at possibilities of breeding the rhino in our communities, " he added.
The trust focuses on rhino management programmes, scientific research and raising public awareness.
It has an ambitious target: to increase rhino numbers to 2, 000 by 2030.
For those staying at Desert Rhino Camp, rhino tracking does not come cheap.
The legalisation of trade in rhino would make overnight millionaires of these key figures in South Africa.
From the 1990s to 2007, rhino killings in South Africa by poachers averaged about 15 a year.
Kuwaiti drove a white S.U.V. whose spare-tire cover was emblazoned with an image of a white rhino.
Police said experts fear the rhino's horn could be ground down to use in black-market Chinese medicine.
Every year, the story of the great rhino round-up is given great play in the local media.
Airware also has a customer in Africa that uses drones for anti-poaching uses to protect the white rhino.
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While the news leaves room for hope, the threat to the Asian and African rhino species remains undiminished.
In Nepal, conservationists recorded particular success story with a five-fold increase in the rhino population since the 1960s.
However, the regular arresting of poachers indicates that the threat remains to continue including illegal rhino horn trade.
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