Future Pasts is pleased to make available the following MSc dissertation by Simson !Uriǂkhob, CEO since 2014 of the Namibian NGO Save the Rhino Trust (SRT). Entitled 'Attitudes and perceptions of local communities towards the reintroduction of black rhino (Diceros bicornis bicornis) into their historical range in northwest Kunene Region, Namibia', Simson’s dissertation was submitted 'in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation Biology' at the University of Kent at Canterbury's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) in the United Kingdom. The dissertation is a tribute to a series of people to whom the Future Pasts (FP) research project is also indebted. It seems appropriate here to mention three of these individuals: the late Blythe Loutit, cofounder (with Ina Britz, and assisted by Rudi Loutit) of SRT, who welcomed FP principal investigator Sian Sullivan as a volunteer undergraduate student in 1992 and encouraged Simson !Uriǂkhob in his early days as an employee of SRT; the late Mike Hearn, former Director of Research for SRT and friend to us all; and Professor Nigel Leader-Williams, who supervised the research of both Simson and Mike Hearn at DICE, and whose work on rhino conservation and ecology is internationally acclaimed.