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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

White rhinos for sale, one careful owner: tycoon looks for a billionaire to buy his conservation ranch

Three-months-old baby white rhinos being fed with integrative milk.
Three-month-old baby white rhinos being fed milk. Photograph: Luca Sola/AFP/Getty Images

Wanted: an animal-loving billionaire who might consider buying 1,993 threatened white rhinos instead of a new superyacht or a Picasso, or a Picasso onboard a superyacht.

John Hume, a South African multimillionaire who started a rhino breeding project with about 200 animals 30 years ago, is selling all the rhinos and the 8,500-hectare (21,000 acres) conservation ranch where they live in what must rank as one of the most unusual ever online auctions.

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