RHINO cunning

The black rhino is the one animal few hunters have had the honour to hunt. In 2004 CITES granted Namibia a quota to offer past-productive males for a trophy hunt, but since then only six were taken. PH Hentie van Heerden was the lucky one chosen to guide Corey Knowlen on his hunting adventure in Namibia, to hunt the black rhino he had bought at an auction in Dallas, Texas. Here is his story.

GERHARD THIRION “This was the hardest hunt of my life. They say you hunt elephant with your feet, buffalo with guts, leopard with your brain, but the most important of all is experience.” I had no prior experience of rhino hunting. So I just had to use the combined experience that I have gained over all the years of stalking and outwitting trophy animals. This hunt was not straightforward at all. The Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) identified three potential males in two different areas. To make sure that we’d take the right animal two rangers of the Ministry had to accompany the hunter, myself and two trackers. And on top of that, a CNN photographer and journalist joined the hunting party to document the adventure. Not the ideal…

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