![]() ![]() “We’re fighting a war out here,” Pinto says, “and right now we’re losing.” The enemy is poachers who have set their sights on South Africa, which, thanks to decades-long conservation efforts, is home to 90 percent of the continent’s remaining rhinos. ![]() As Pinto and I hurtle north toward a dusty village called Gravelotte, he updates me on what has been happening since he first told me about this poaching epidemic last year. ![]() I have just landed at the rural Hoedspruit Airport in South Africa’s Limpopo Province to begin a three-week journey that will take me through the eye of the rhino poaching storm that is swirling across the continent but is centered in South Africa.
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