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# Rhinos Return After 30 Years
- URL: https://goodnewsdailytv.com/2026-08-02-bonus-animal-2-rhinos-return-after-30-years/
- Published: 2026-08-02T15:01:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-04T21:06:47.000Z
- Description: For the first time in more than 30 years, black rhinos are back in Zimbabwe's Matusadona National Park — some of them direct descendants of the very animals rangers airlifted out during the 1980s poaching crisis to save the species.
- Author: Good News Daily
- Tags: Inspirational Profile

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For the first time in more than thirty years, black rhinos are walking through Zimbabwe's Matusadona National Park again.

Back in the early 1990s, poaching got so bad that rangers had to airlift the last surviving rhinos out just to save them. Park manager Michael Pelham helped crate up those very animals — and he's still there today.

This June, a new group of rhinos, some of them direct descendants of the ones he once helped save, were flown back in and released into a 175-square-kilometer protected zone, each one fitted with a tracker.

"I helped capture the last survivors, not knowing if the species would ever come back," Pelham said. Now, it has.

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**Sources:** [newsday.co.zw](https://www.newsday.co.zw/2026/06/03/after-three-decades-black-rhino-return-to-zimbabwes-matusadona/?ref=goodnewsdailytv.com) · [africanparks.org](https://www.africanparks.org/black-rhino-return-zimbabwes-matusadona-national-park?ref=goodnewsdailytv.com)

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