Every year there is an auction of African wild animals in KwaZulu / Natal, South Africa, at which rhinos are also on offer. Bidders come from all over the world, but South Africans are also bidding. Many farmers are turning their farms into private wildlife reserves and are hoping for a future in the tourism industry.
A rhino – waiting for a new home – feeds in a cage before the auction begins. Men are cleaning a booma before the bidders arive to have a look on the auctioned wildlife. An owner of a private game reverve in South Africa checks the auctions catalog for a female rhino. This guy will bid on two rhinos for an european zoo. Bidders on a rhino. A guy is helping the auctioneer to detect bidders in the crowded auction-tent. The auctioneer points to bidders in the crowded tent which show interest in the animal shown on the display behind. A vet is waiting for the right moment to grap the tranquiliser-injection in the rhinos neck after the animal is moved into a transport-box. An implanted computer-chip is check before the rhino will be delivered to its new home. A sold rhino is loaded on a trailer and soon delivered to its new home.