The Rhino Lady of Limpopo Province
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6 min readApr 30, 2022
When I met the Rhino Lady, she was already retired and living beside an 88,000-acre game reserve near the very northern tip of South Africa, rather than on the 61,000-acre rhinoceros sanctuary she had created in Kenya decades earlier. Still, Anna Merz’s final home had its own resident rhinos, and that seemed appropriate: the woman who devoted much of her life to Africa’s threatened rhino population needed to live close to the…
