Savanna fires, a boon to grazers, cast rhinos into a ‘food desert’

Mongabay
Nov 6, 2018, 6:41 am158 pts
When it comes to protecting the critically endangered black rhinoceros, the focus tends to be on preventing the animals from being poached. But insidious threats like fire could be affecting their long-term survival too, a new study warns. In African savannas, natural resource managers frequently use fire as a…

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