Beginning in the early 1990s, private land owners in Zimbabwe have started fencing in large areas of land that contain black rhinos, which were on the verge of extinction. These private owners charge fees for a stay at the lodges on the property (eco-tourism) and also sell hunting safaris and photo safaris. As a result:_______.

Explanation: this is a classic case of private conservation. Black rhinos were pretty much plentiful across Africa until poaching activities decimated their numbers between 1970 and 1994. While government tried various means of protecting this specie, such as dehorning live animals, banning trade in rhino horns which was feeding Asian medicine market, creating anyị-poaching units etc. it proved futile. More rhinos were killed.

It was not until the early 1990s, a time when most black rhinos were relocated to private lands and ranches (the relocation program spurred some ranchers to shift to wildlife protection, eco-tourism etc.) with foreign contributions by way of aids did we see a reduction in poaching activities as well as increased and sustained growth of the black rhinos for the first time in decades.