Our Impact – Preserve

Rhino Range Expansion

We’ve Funded: £19,000

Where: South Africa

Helping Rhinos is thrilled to announce that in partnership with the Kariega Foundation and Freedom to Roam Adventures, Kariega Game Reserve has recently completed the first phase of an ambitious and important habitat expansion project in the beautiful Bushmans River Valley, growing the footprint of our protected area to 11,500 hectares. This new land forms part of our vision to create Rhino Strongholds in key locations, including South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

One of the consequences of the Kariega habitat expansion project has been the creation of a new home for poaching survivor Thandi’s second calf, Colin. Fully funded by Helping Rhinos, Colin was translocated with two females and subadult calves to form a new crash on the expanded land.

The project will also enable the future introduction of critically endangered black rhino and other endangered species such as cheetah.

Orphan Release

We’ve Funded: £15,000

Where: South Africa

Thanks to the generous support of our supporters and our rhino orphan adopters, in collaboration with our partner Zululand Rhino Orphanage we have released seven rhinos back into the wild, where they belong.

The released orphans will continue to be monitored on a daily basis to ensure their safety, and while there is a risk for all rhinos living in the wild, it is important that the rhino orphans are able to roam freely, living a natural life as wild rhinos, playing their part in the future of healthy rhino populations.

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