Funding Our Conservation Mission
UNITING HUNTING & CONSERVATION
Devastating losses caused by poaching have left Africa’s rhino population under severe threat of extinction. Protecting and managing the remaining rhinos is a dangerous and extremely costly exercise.
Most national parks have failed to combat poaching and are on the brink of losing all of their rhino. However, some private reserves have successfully protected and even grown their populations.
Ethical, responsible and sustainable hunting provides a source of financial income for essential private rhino security and management. Moreover, it offers positive incentives for rural communities and private landowners to support conservation efforts at large.
African case studies indicate that appropriately managed and regulated legal hunting can reinforce (rather than compromise) species and habitat conservation. Only a tiny percentage of the rhino population is hunted annually, and greater numbers exist today than when controlled rhino hunting was first introduced in 1972.
Most national parks have failed to combat poaching and are on the brink of losing all of their rhino. However, some private reserves have successfully protected and even grown their populations.
Ethical, responsible and sustainable hunting provides a source of financial income for essential private rhino security and management. Moreover, it offers positive incentives for rural communities and private landowners to support conservation efforts at large.
African case studies indicate that appropriately managed and regulated legal hunting can reinforce (rather than compromise) species and habitat conservation. Only a tiny percentage of the rhino population is hunted annually, and greater numbers exist today than when controlled rhino hunting was first introduced in 1972.
400+ RHINOS
OUR COSTS
Rockwood Means Rhino
OUR PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATION APPROACH
Rockwood Private Nature Reserve protects one of the largest privately owned rhino populations on the planet.
Our ultimate goal is to witness a flourishing and safe rhino population – unshackled from the severe threat of poaching.
We practice ethical and sustainable hunting to cover some of the costs of our rhino herd's protection – directly supporting successful rhino conservation.
Our ultimate goal is to witness a flourishing and safe rhino population – unshackled from the severe threat of poaching.
We practice ethical and sustainable hunting to cover some of the costs of our rhino herd's protection – directly supporting successful rhino conservation.
Armed Rangers on Horseback
Vehicle Movement Monitoring
Extensive CCTV Monitoring
Intensive Protection Zones
Beyond the Cross-Hairs
HUNT FOR A CHANGE
The proceeds from your luxury hunting safari directly safeguards the future of the Southern White Rhino, as it is applied to help cover our vast security, veterinary, baby rhino nursing, and research expenses.
Income generated from our resort and hunting safaris is spent on feeding our rhinos and other game species; monitoring their health (and the associated data collection and capturing); general upkeep of rhino camps, fences and gates; vets dehorning, micro-chipping, and pregnancy testing rhinos; providing care for orphaned rhino calves and any injured animals; checking and maintaining camera traps; feeding, grooming, and care of the rangers' horses, and cleaning and maintenance of their stables.
When you Hunt For Change, you're providing an invaluable financial contribution to the conservation of one of the world's most endangered species, as well as to the livelihood of our people.
We invite ethical, conservation-minded rifle and bow hunters to partake in fair chase principle hunting of carefully selected rhinos and a variety of premium wild game species.
At Rockwood, we don't breed to hunt. We hunt to protect.
Income generated from our resort and hunting safaris is spent on feeding our rhinos and other game species; monitoring their health (and the associated data collection and capturing); general upkeep of rhino camps, fences and gates; vets dehorning, micro-chipping, and pregnancy testing rhinos; providing care for orphaned rhino calves and any injured animals; checking and maintaining camera traps; feeding, grooming, and care of the rangers' horses, and cleaning and maintenance of their stables.
When you Hunt For Change, you're providing an invaluable financial contribution to the conservation of one of the world's most endangered species, as well as to the livelihood of our people.
We invite ethical, conservation-minded rifle and bow hunters to partake in fair chase principle hunting of carefully selected rhinos and a variety of premium wild game species.
At Rockwood, we don't breed to hunt. We hunt to protect.
- Every activity hosted at Rockwood contributes to rhino conservation.
- Selective rhino hunting provides the financial means to care for the entire population.
- Our thriving private population of rhinos is a testament of our highly successful and progressive approach.
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