Our Vision
To provide secure, sustainable and healthy eco-systems which are rich in biodiversity and provide an environment where all species of rhino can thrive for generations to come.
Our Mission
To create Rhino Strongholds – expanding wild spaces for wildlife that protect the rhino, preserve their natural habitat and provide local community-led conservation initiatives.
The Threats to Rhino
The work of Helping Rhinos address and tackles the three key threats to sustainable populations of rhino on our planet:
How We Are Helping
To address these threats, Helping Rhinos provides region-wide thought leadership on rhino conservation best practices and funding through a project partner matrix that delivers against our three core operating principles:
CREATING RHINO STRONGHOLDS
Founded in 2012, Helping Rhinos is building on a decade of active rhino conservation across Africa to ensure a safe and reproductive future for rhino by creating ‘Rhino Strongholds’.
Rhino Strongholds are areas that provide the best possible security to reduce the risk of poaching and are large enough to allow the rhino to demonstrate natural behaviours, including migration between territories and genetically diverse breeding, without the need for hands on intervention by humans.
Local communities will be integral to the success of Rhino Strongholds, which will provide employment opportunities and engage local people in wildlife conservation through education programmes and initiatives that improve livelihoods.
Rhino Strongholds will have a rich biodiversity and a healthy ecosystem that benefits a wide variety of both fauna and flora species. The areas will have scope to increase in size through the restoration of degraded habitat and the dropping of fences between already established wildlife areas.
Read More About Rhino StrongholdsA Brief History
Fuelled by his love of rhinos, outraged at the unprecedented level of rhino poaching and horrified by a devastating poaching attack at Kariega Game Reserve in South Africa, where he had spent time studying conservation methods, Simon Jones gave up his 25-year corporate career and founded international NGO Helping Rhinos.
Simon combined his expertise in business management with his experience in the charitable and conservation sector to build an organisation that is helping to protect the global population of rhino and to create protected ecosystems which are rich in biodiversity while at the same time inspiring local communities to become proactively involved in wildlife conservation.
Helping Rhinos has developed key partnerships around the world with each organisation focusing on their own strengths, maximising the limited financial and human resources available to support this critical work.
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