Race to Extinction: Documenting Africa's Poaching Pandemic


  • Photographer
    Tito West
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    16 August 2015

In August of 2015, I traveled to Sabie Game Reserve in southern Mozambique, on the border with Kruger National Park to document the Rhino Poaching pandemic occurring there. Sabie is very unique in that it is located directly between 70% of the world’s white and black rhino population, which lives in Kruger and the majority of the world’s rhino poachers, who come from villages adjacent to the reserve, not far from Kruger’s boundary which also serves as the international boundary between South Africa and Mozambique. Rhinos often cross the boundary and enter Sabie, which poses a serious threat to their safety as they have moved even closer to the poachers who are relentlessly gunning them down. The original goal of my going there was to document the rangers and the work they do. Unfortunately, on my second day on the ground a female southern white rhino was gunned down by poachers.

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