FAQ

South Africa’s recently released rhino poaching statistics confirm a drop in the country’s rhino poaching numbers. The numbers reveal a 26% decline from 769 rhinos poached in 2018, to 564 poached in 2019. As the fifth consecutive year to reflect a downward trend in poached rhinos, this is good news for rhino conservation. Read more about it here.

Despite white rhino populations worsening in recent years, due to high levels of poaching, they remain more numerous than black rhinos. Read more here.

There is no colour difference between the black and the white rhino species. Read about their differences here.

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Anti-poaching units and government-funded national game reserves do their best to protect our wildlife. Read more here.

Our rhino population might be wiped out in as little as ten years. Read about private conservation efforts here.

Private rhino conservations like Rockwood self-fund all the high-tech security, ranger costs, rhino feed, veterinary care and more needed to safeguard their animals. They hand-rear baby rhinos whose moms can’t look after them. They also pour money into research and repopulation efforts, with the hope of one day relocating rhinos into the wild or, at least, to wild reserves and parks. Read more about our challenges here.

Rhino horn is highly valued as a status symbol and used for traditional medicine in countries such as Vietnam and China – the largest markets for illegally trafficked rhino horn in the world. Read more about it here.

Click here to read about the diet of the five remaining rhino species.

Click here to read about the affects the pandemic had on wildlife conservation.

Financial donations are all spent on the care and protection of our rhinos. This include money spent on security and fencing, feed, vetinary aid, DNA profiling, research, and learning centres. You can read more about how we spend our funds here. We are also eager to open our books to anyone that wishes to see what the funding covers.