Pam has also grown very fond of the shy black rhino. "I had seen them in the distance in the wild but it was when I saw a few close up in the bomas (holding pens in which animals are housed before being translocated to new homes) at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park that I really fell in love. They're so big and so powerful, yet at the same time so vulnerable. What struck me particularly was what a small part of this magnificent animal the horn is, yet it's been the cause of so much suffering for rhino at the hands of people."
Complexities of conservation in a developing country
Pam Sherriffs, communications manager for the Black Rhino Range Expansion Project, is a former journalist who decided she wanted to become more involved in environmental work than simply reporting on it.
Since joining the project, she has learned an enormous amount about the complexities of conservation in a developing country and gained respect for the people tackling those complexities head on.