By Jo Briffitt | Supporter Care & Database Executive
Black rhinos are critically endangered, and it is estimated that there are fewer than 5,630 black rhinos left in the wild. As recently as the 1960s, it was estimated that over 100,000 black rhinos were still roaming Africa, but due to poaching and inadequate field protection these numbers have dwindled.
At DSWF we believe that it is vitally important to raise environmental awareness in children from an early age and it is our aim to bring conservation issues into schools and to individuals globally. Our conservation partners, Save The Rhino Trust in Namibia, were recently able to bolster their community outreach programmes with the addition of two new projects, Reading with Rhinos and Wild Rhino Experience which focus on children at primary school level through the provision of reading material, whilst also promoting the work that rangers and field staff do in conservation.
The work of DSWF and our ground-based conservation partners also include monitoring, training and research focused on desert-adapted black rhino. The overall goal of this project is to generate a stable or increasing population of black rhino with zero poaching.
To learn more about our conservation work with Rhinos, please visit our website.
Thank you for supporting us in our mission to turn the tide on extinction.
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