Our rhino specialist Lars on a working visit to Tanzania

This week our curator Lars Versteege visits Tanzania. He is responsible for all European zoos for the management program of the broad-lipped rhinoceros. But he is also committed to the conservation of the remaining rhino species. Because there are few rhinos left, there is cooperation not only within European zoos, but worldwide, to save the five remaining rhino species from extinction.

From this role, Lars and two other European experts will visit Tanzania from Feb. 14 to 25. In this East African country, he will visit three nature reserves: the Grumeti Game Reserve, Mkomazi National Park and Tarangire National Park.

What he will do here, he tells himself in the video below:

Today Lars visited the Grumeti Game Reserve. This park is researching the possibility of releasing three Black rhinoceros from European zoos. Lars is thinking along with them. How this visit went, he tells here.

Lars went to visit the Mkomazi National Park today. Black rhinoceros born in European zoos were released here several years ago. These now walk separately from park-born animals. The park would like to remove the fence that keeps the two groups apart. But it is always very exciting how the two groups react to each other. European zoos have a lot of experience introducing new animals to existing groups. That's why they asked Lars and his two colleagues for advice.

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