The planned White Rhino Conservation Centre at Orana Wildlife Park. Image: One to One HundredConstruction will start tomorrow on a $1.4 million White Rhino Conservation Centre at Orana Wildlife Park in Christchurch. The new facility will be able to hold up to 20 rhinos at a time and is being developed as part of a global effort to help save rhinos from extinction. "Our White Rhino Conservation Centre is essential for this project. "Every rhino transferred from Africa that is destined for our Australian partners must be quarantined in NZ for up to one year in our White Rhino Conservation Centre.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 13, 2021 00:00 UTC