For the first time in more than four decades, rhinos have returned to Uganda’s Kidepo Valley National Park, where poachers once wiped them out for their horns and meat.

On Tuesday, two southern white rhinos became the first of eight animals intended to re-establish a population in the park. The last rhino there was killed in 1983, the Uganda Wildlife Authority, which is responsible for the relocation said.

Forty years after the last one was poached, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda, BBC, 18 March 2026