Video Three rare baby rhinos arrive at animal sanctuary

THIS STORY ONLY INCLUDES PICTURES OF TWO BLACK RHINOS - NO PICTURES OF THE BABY WHITE RHINO, MENTIONED IN THE STORYLINE, ARE AVAILABLE

1. Wide shot, Karen Trendler, Director of Rhino Sanctuary feeding baby Rhinos

2. Close Up baby rhino and bottle

3. Mid shot Karen and baby rhinos

4. Close up of baby rhinos playing with empty milk bottle

5. Mid shot of Karen and babies

6. Wide of Karen talking to babies

7. SOUNDBITE English) Karen Trendler, Director Wildcare Africa Trust:

" We'll be able to handle these rhinos right through to about 2 years old, but the idea is to bottle feed them until about 18 months, which is when they are weaned in the wild and then to start the whole reintroduction programme so they can actually go back into the wild populations."

8. Various of juvenile Rhinos.

9. Wide of two black rhino babies and staff

10. SOUNBITE (English) Karen Trendler, Director Wildcare Africa Trust

" For us to have a lot of rhino at the centre is not unusual, we've got 17 here, but to have have 3 babes' the same size and age here together is amazing, and to have 2 black rhino together is mind blowing".

11. Wide of baby rhinos being exercised

12. Mid shot of staff member playing with baby

13: Close up of staff member playing with baby

14: Wide of staff and baby

15: Wide of staff laying in the sun with two black rhinos

16: Wide, Tired baby rhinos walking through shot with staff.

17. SOUNBITE (English) Karen Trendler:

"Kap'ela was born in the Bomas mup at Skukuza, and he was born 3 weeks prematurely, he was born too soon, and because he was premature he didnt react normally, he was too small, he was very weak, so his mum rejected him. He was under 20 kilograms when he got here, he was tiny and had a lot against him so the fact he has made it is really special."

18. Wide of Kap'ela ( the one month prematurely born male black rhino) playing with dogs

19. Travelling shot of babes being put back in play pen


STORYLINE


A small Rhino Sanctuary in Eastern Pretoria - outside of Johannesburg - received 3 new additions over the last week.


The Wildcare Africa Trust, which rehabilitates injured and orphaned Rhinos got a surprise when two highly endangered Black Rhinos and a baby white rhino landed on their door step.


The two black rhinos were rejected by their mothers in South African Game reserves and the little white rhino was flown in from Swaziland in a helicopter.


Rhinos - especially black ones - are targeted for their horns, which are used widely in Chinese medicine.


Recently however numbers have been depleted radically by starving people hunting to survive as more and more people in Southern Africa slip below the bread line.


The three babies were already christened. Kap'ela (meaning "the one who came too soon") is the one month old prematurely born male from the Kruger National Park.


Thandi, "Hope," is an eleven day old baby from the Cape Region of South Africa.


And M'Bali, which means "Pretty Flower" is a ten day old male.


Karen Trendler, Director Wildcare Africa Trust said that the three rhinos will be raised in the sanctuary for two years before setting them free in the wild.


She said that there are only 2500 black rhinos left in the world. Thus, every single animal that survives contributes to the conservation of the species.

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