#92 | Bringing Rhinos Back to Hwange with Mark 'Butch' Butcher

September 22, 2022 01:13:44
#92 | Bringing Rhinos Back to Hwange with Mark 'Butch' Butcher
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#92 | Bringing Rhinos Back to Hwange with Mark 'Butch' Butcher

Sep 22 2022 | 01:13:44

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Show Notes

Today is a very special day for conservation. It’s World Rhino Day, and I guarantee you that most stories you hear will be tragic, depressing, and defeating. While it is important to be fully aware about the tragedies our rhinos have faced, today, I want to bring you a different story. A story of hope, determination, and perseverance.

In this episode, we’re sitting down with Mark Butcher, more commonly known as Butch, the founder and Managing Director of Imvelo Safaris in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Butch and I have a marvelous conversation about his time as a ranger, how he discovered ecotourism as a way to empower the communities surrounding the park while protecting wildlife, what it was like watching the last rhino being shot in his country, and why he took on the massive project of safely and sustainably bringing rhinos back to Hwange.

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