Katelyn Pye, a Grade 12 pupil at St Mary’s School, Waverley said, “With the turn of the century began the plight of the rhinos. As world population numbers rapidly declined from 70 000 rhinos in 1970 to less than 29 000 today, three out of the five different rhino species throughout Africa and southern Asia have become critically endangered.”
Pye proposed the idea that all the pupils of the school from all grades stand on their school sports field in the shape of a rhino. With the help of two other passionate pupils, Reid Hefer and Michelle Crossman, the rhino image was mapped out on the field using a scale drawing, 100 nails and countless metres of string.
After five hours of hard work, the rhino shape was finally ready to be filled. The pupils made their way down to the field wearing their tracksuits for an aerial photograph of all the pupils wearing their strikingly-red tracksuits.
Dale Nolan, a former St Mary’s parent, successfully flew his drone attached with a video camera to take an aerial photograph of the gigantic rhino.
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