Conservation interventions accounted for a 'conservation legacy' of 6,191 black rhinos in 2022.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by the peer-reviewed source study (Ferreira et al. 2024) and corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources including Save the Rhino International and BioOne's abstract of the paper.
Sources
- Measuring black rhino recovery (worldwildlife.org)
- https://bioone.org/journals/african-journal-of-wildlife-research/volume-54/issue-1/056.054.0081/Conservation-Impacts-and-the-Future-of-the-Black-Rhinoceros-Diceros/10.3957/056.054.0081.short (bioone.org)
- https://www.savetherhino.org/africa/measuring-black-rhino-conservation-success-and-exciting-recovery-potential-for-the-future/ (savetherhino.org)
- https://rhinoresourcecenter.com/library/references/conservation-impacts-and-the-future-of-the-black-rhinoceros-diceros-bicornis/ (rhinoresourcecenter.com)