A rhino among spekboom at the Kwandwe Game Reserve in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Todd Brown / UNEP
Doc Ndyawe is always on alert in case poachers target the black rhinos that browse the thickets along the Great Fish River in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. But he worries more about another lurking danger: drought.
“It’s wet here now, Kwandwe is looking beautiful,” says Ndyawe, a ranger at the 30,000-hectare Kwandwe Private Game Reserve. “But not even long ago, it was very dry here. Five years back it was almost like dust.”…