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Six white rhinos rescued as orphaned calves after poachers killed their mothers have all successfully given birth in the wild. Their journey from traumatized babies to thriving mothers took five years of intensive rehabilitation in South Africa.
A Boston penguin expert just spent two weeks hand-raising critically endangered African penguin chicks in South Africa, helping save a species that's lost 97% of its population. Her work is part of a growing effort to prevent these beloved birds from disappearing forever by 2035.
The world's two largest whale species are slowly reclaiming their historic ocean home off South Africa and Namibia, six decades after industrial whaling nearly wiped them out. Scientists say the increasing sightings prove these ocean giants can recover when we give them a chance.
