How can you judge the success of an “awareness raising” campaign? Changes in attitude can be difficult to measure and the impact of education needs time to take effect. However, one thing ...
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Congratulations to Richard Bonham who has been awarded The Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa, a lifetime achievement award, at the 2014 Tusk Conservation awards.
The award recognises Ric...
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The UK government is calling on East Asian countries to mount ‘appropriately targeted’ awareness-raising campaigns to dispel the myth that rhino horn is an effective type of medicine, agai...
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Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park’s (HiP) dense scrub, large predators and rocky terrain make traversing the Park on foot very tough. Every day on-the-ground ranger teams monitor and protect rhinos in this lan...
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Guest blog by Kenneth Donaldson on running the Great Union Canal Race (145 miles!) for rhinos.
You feel terribly brave when you sign up for the Great Union Canal Race (GUCR). Since this happens arou...
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3 March marks World Wildlife Day – a day that both celebrates the intrinsic value of wild fauna and flora and acts as a reminder of the urgent need to tackle wildlife and forest crime.
The indus...
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Since news broke about the spread of the latest coronavirus, or Covid-19, there has been a great deal of misinformation across the internet. After it was announced that the virus originated at a wet t...
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Credit: Jim Higham
As the Ride London-Surrey 100 2018 ballot places are now announced, and recruitment for Team Rhino 2018 is in full flow. We take this opportunity to speak to South African native an...
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Writing in The Times, Simon Barnes reports on how UK auction houses are exploiting a legal loophole to make vast profits from sales of taxidermy troophy mounts.
Simon Barnes, The Times, Saturday 20 No...
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We’re delighted to share the good news that the total population of Javan rhinos has increased from 68 to 72 individuals! Following analysis of the results of a camera-trap survey conducted in Septe...
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Over the past month, officials in several of India’s national parks have been conducting a rhino census to confirm the country’s total number of Greater one-horned rhinos. So far, the census has b...
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The Northern white rhino is now one step closer to extinction, following the sad announcement of the death of Suni at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy in October 2014. Suni died aged 34 years-old a...
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