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National Geographic curated photos from 91 photographers, 107 stories, and 2,290,225 photographs.
Poachers killed this black rhinoceros for its horn with high-caliber bullets in South Africa’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. Black rhinos number only about 5,000 today.
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