Gonarezhou Conservation Trust has postponed plans to reintroduce up to 30 Black rhinos in Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park.

This year the trust had planned to re-introduce the animals to be sourced from the country’s other national parks such as Malilangwe Trust, Bubye Valley Conservancy, and Save Conservancy.

Gonarezhou is managed by the trust, a new model for protected area management drawn up between the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority and the Frankfurt Zoological Society.

Trust Director, Hugo van der Westhuizen, said: “We are still busy with plans to re-introduce rhinos next year. A final plan has not yet been approved by the trustees but hopefully will be soon.”

Security levels at the park have improved to the extent that a rhino reintroduction project is now feasible.