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Black rhino, Zambezi, dies while being flown to Tanzania

Zambezi was with a team from the Grumeti Fund Reserve, alongside one of his dedicated keepers and a vet from Africa

A black rhino has died while being flown from a UK nature reserve to Tanzania.

Zambezi, the male rhino, was being kept at the Port Lympne Reserve in Kent ahead of his transfer back to the wild as part of a programme to repopulate the Serengeti.

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