Six endangered black rhinos on way from S. Africa to Chad

One of the six black rhinos waiting to be transported to Chad's Zakouma National Park, pictured at the Addo Elephants National Park in South Africa on May 1, 2018

Six critically endangered black rhinos were en route from South Africa to Chad on Thursday in a pioneering project to re-introduce the animals to a country where they were wiped out by poaching nearly 50 years ago.

The wild black rhinos were loaded onto a plane at Port Elizabeth airport on the South African coast in a 3,000-mile (4,800-kilometre) journey to Chad's Zakouma National Park.