Black Rhino

photograph Memorial to a Species also won the wildlife photojournalist award, story category. And first prize in the World Press Photo’s nature stories category. The killers of this magnificent creature were probably from the local community. They entered the Hluhluwe Imfolozi game reserve at night and shot the black rhino bull using a silencer. Working fast, they hacked off the two horns and escaped. The horns would have been sold to a middleman and smuggled out of South Africa to China or Vietnam.