Roundup: Uganda makes progress in preparing for rewilding endangered white rhinoceros


ARUA, Uganda, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Conservationists in Uganda are working to transform the Ajai Wildlife Reserve in the northwestern Ugandan district of Madi-Okollo into a home for the endangered white rhinoceros.

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), a state conservation agency, is deploying both biological and manual efforts to restore the 166-square-kilometer reserve to its original savannah state to enable the relocation of the rhinoceros next year.

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