The World Bank will this year start selling a bond designed to raise funds for the conservation and protection of endangered black rhinos in South Africa, in what is the world’s first wildlife conservation bond. 

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Nick de Goede, park manager at Addo, said, “It couldn’t have come at a better time, we have to look after the rhino, it’s critically endangered. The whole idea is to look at the rhino as a pilot and then it can be rolled out for any species.”

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