GoPro once again step away from the pulse pounding beats and extreme stunts for another somber interlude; this time featuring a conservation team’s frantic plight to save the last rhinos. GoPro partnered up with several organisations, including Dereck and Beverly Joubert’s Rhinos Without Borders project (in partnership with Great Plains Foundation), to tell the story of a dwindling keystone species.

After receiving a call to rescue 15 rhinos in South Africa from the imminent threat of poachers, Rhinos Without Borders immediately set off to capture and relocate them. Most of the action seen in the documentary was filmed through the lens of a GoPro Hero 4 adding drama to the conservation effort.

Throughout the documentary, the rhinos are framed as the architects sustaining Africa’s natural ecosystem. However, they are threatened by the popular myth that Rhino horn has medicinal properties. Coupled with their rarity, this has led to Rhino horn being valued three times its weight in gold.

With 20,000 rhinos left in the wild and poachers killing one rhino for its horn every 7. 5 hours, Rhinos without Borders is on a race to relocate every single one from the most poached areas in South Africa to the safest regions in Botswana. The Joubert’s assert that by focusing their efforts on rhinos right now, they’re also able to protect the ecosystem and save many other species, right down to the tiny dung beetle.

In celebration of World Rhino Day on September 22, GoPro has launched a donations page for the Great Plains Foundation to support its conservation effort. To find out more visit GoPro for a Cause here.

2016-10-7 03:00