Photograph #56
Location: Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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Date: September 2001
Format and Resolution: Digital (photo available in 1024 X 768 resolution)
Photo Description: Awesome Rhinoceros, one of only a dozen left! in the Masai Mara National Wildlife Reserve. A local Masai guide and I trekked some time to find and photograph this fellow. The Masai Mara holds one of the last unfenced rhino populations in Africa. The Mara Rhinoceros population declined to less than 15 (from 150 in the 1960s), but began to recover in the late 1980s due to conservation efforts. Unfortunately, however, the recovery peaked in the mid 1990s at around 35 animals, and has since declined again to under 15 individuals (again). Please help support Rhino conservation efforts if you can. To see more photos from the Masai Mara National Wildlife Reserve click here.