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From Our Own Correspondent: Set a Soldier to Stop a Poacher

Chris Terrill witnesses how one South African game reserve is tapping military expertise to protect its endangered rhinos, threatened by poachers

As the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meets in Johannesburg, Chris Terrill travels to a more rural corner of South Africa to see what saving wildlife can mean on the ground. In the KwaZulu Natal region, the privately-owned game reserve Thula Thula now feels its rhinos are under such a great threat from poachers that it's turned to military tactics (and advice from a former British Royal Marine commando) to keep these animals safe. But will this kind of training also help the game wardens stay alive?

Photo: ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images

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Thu 29 Sep 2016 15:23GMT

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