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Ranveig Eckhoff
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Ranveig Eckhoff is a Norwegian freelance journalist based in Berlin. Her writing focuses on travel, music, and nature conservation. She started writing professionally after having spent the first half of her career as an opera singer, touring Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Italy. She is the author of three books: Arie (Oslo: Tiden, 1994), Sing, Nachtigall, sing (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag, 1997), and Italienske hemmeligheter (Italian Secrets) (Oslo: Press, 2002). She is engaged in work for the Global Nature Fund, an international environmental organisation, focusing on the "Living Lakes" project. She is currently working on a book, Living Hope, comprising stories linked to this lake network.

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Rhinos on Death Row? Part III

(0) Comments | Posted June 5, 2012 | 6:33 PM

What can we do?

On the way to our next encounter, we have some time to reflect. There is no lack of initiatives for the benefit of one of the most iconic animals still walking the earth. One of them is operated by the South African Wildland Conservation Trust (WCT)....

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Rhinos on Deathrow? Part II

(4) Comments | Posted June 1, 2012 | 9:18 AM

"Don't save your bag, save yourself"

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Harmony to stay?

We pay a visit to Hluhluwe-uMfolozi http://www.kznwildlife.com/, the core habitat of the African rhino, in South Africa's KwaZuluNatal. We are joining Jabulani Ngubane, Ezemvelo Wildlife Rhino Security Intervention Coordinator, on a patrol with...

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Rhinos on Death Row? (PHOTOS)

(4) Comments | Posted May 24, 2012 | 8:10 PM

This is the first piece in a three-part series.

Somewhere in Eastern Cape, South Africa, one fateful morning, wildlife veterinarian Dr. William Fowlds received a call from Kariega Game Reserve. One of their rhinos had been poached. Fowlds recalls, "I expressed my heartfelt remorse and said I would be there...

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