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About Pilanesberg Nature Reserve

Pilanesberg Nature Reserve is the sanctuary for a very important rhino population in South Africa. Both species have adapted extremely well in the reserve and the excess from both species has been used to re-establish new populations across southern Africa.

For the past seven years, the park’s rhino population has been plagued by poaching (as was the case across the continent). During this period more than 120 rhinos were lost in the reserve due

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