Save the Rhino

Save the Rhino International works to conserve viable populations of critically endangered rhinos in Africa and Asia. They recognise that the future of wildlife is inextricably linked to the communities that share its habitat. By funding field projects and through education, their goal is to deliver material, long-lasting and widespread benefits to rhinos and other endangered species, ecosystems and to the people living in these areas. They currently work with 15 field programmes in Africa and Asia.
Unfortunately due to an increasing Asian demand for rhino horn, rhino poaching is at a 15-year high. At the beginning of the 20th century there were 500,000 rhinos; at the beginning of the 21st century there are fewer than 25,000. Three of the five species are classified as Critically Endangered and all are threatened by poaching and habitat loss. But it’s not too late, one hundred years ago there were only 50-200 white rhino. Concerned conservationists brought them back from the brink of extinction and now we must do the same for the other four species.