Helping Rhinos
Our objectives
Helping Rhinos is forging innovative conservation, community and education initiatives to ensure the long-term survival of the rhino and other endangered wildlife in their natural habitat.
We are working in Kenya, united with the country’s vision to reach a population of 2,000 black rhino by 2030. We share South Africa’s mission to restore healthy populations of black and white rhino in all key conservation areas, championing the benefits of emerging technological opportunities. We are improving livelihoods by investing in local communities and leading conservation education initiatives.
Simply put, we love rhinos! Our aim is to help the species survive at sustainable levels in their natural habitat.
Rhino have been on the planet for 50 million years, and have evolved into their current form throughout that time as the environment and their habitat has changed. They now face their biggest challenge as man restricts their natural habitat and kills them for their horn.
They are perhaps symbolic of a struggle between man and the natural world.
We aim to help the species survive for future generations, this means that we favour project that support the development of sustainable populations.
Our activities
We work with a small number of partners, predominantly in Africa, who meet some or all of the following criteria, they:
- Preserve or develop new habitat for rhinos and other species
- Protect rhinos from poaching
- Provide information and education on the importance of the sustaining the rhino population to local communities and broader populations
- Sustain the species via other sustainable and scalable projects
In order to keep rhino safe in their natural habitat, we believe there are seven key areas that we must be focussed on achieving. The first six key areas are the critical day to day operational processes of keeping rhinos safe, working with local communities and ensuring we have a global strategy at the highest level of Government to combat the Illegal Wildlife Trade. These include habitat, protection, community, education, research and political advocacy.
Underpinning these six focus areas is the most critical - FUNDING. Without funding in place, none of the previous six areas will be successful. At Helping Rhinos, our number one objective is to secure the funding required to ensure our projects in the field can continue to operate.