Rhino

12/11/2025

Though it’s called “Rhino”, it is really more of a filmed critique of life in rural Kenya as it deals with the consequences of a four-year drought. With the rivers running low and the animals forced to forage even more frugally than usual, we are introduced to the dedicated rangers in two of the country’s game conservancies where they hope to restore the dwindling rhinoceros population and keep them safe from poachers, bandits and each other. With the weather conditions worsening and impacting on water and crop supplies, increasingly lawless renegades are marauding the countryside stealing herds from the farmers and endangering the people who are trying to relocate some of these beasts to an adjacent site where they can more readily establish their ten square kilometre territories. The pho