Rare black rhinos relocated to Tanzania in Serengeti repopulation plan

FILE PHOTO: An endangered east African black rhinoceros and her young one walk in Tanzania's Serengeti park, May 21, 2010. REUTERS/Tom Kirkwood/File Photo

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has flown in nine black rhinos to its Serengeti national park from South Africa as part of efforts to restore its population of the critically endangered species.

Rampant poaching during the 1960s and 1970s in the Serengeti, famed for its sweeping planes and Africa's most spectacular wildebeest migration, devastated the population of rare east African black rhinos in Tanzania.