AN “absolutely delightful” black rhino from a zoo in North Yorkshire has embarked on an “epic journey” to Africa where she will be released into the wild as part of a conservation project.
Eight-year-old Chanua’s departure from Flamingo Land, in Kirby Misperton, near Malton, on Wednesday afternoon was said to have gone “very smoothly”.
Staff at the zoo said it had been an “emotional 24 hours” as they said goodbye to the critically endangered animal they have looked after for the past four years.
Chanua will travel to Kent, where she will be introduced to two other female rhinos, before being taken by air to Tanzania – the home of Flamingo Land’s Udzungwa Forest Project.