Rhino conservation: How you can be involved

The major challenges facing the rhinos at Mantis Founders Lodge

Since 2008, rhino poaching increased by over 9,000% due to an unsustainable demand for rhino horn products in the Far East. This has seen numbers of the Southern White Rhino, reduced from nearly 30,000 to less than 20,000 today. Sadly, more rhinos are being lost than being born, meaning that this species is on its way to becoming extinct unless effective intervention is achieved.
The incredibly biodiverse Eastern Cape of South Africa is currently in the sixth year of the most relentless drought in a century. Game reserves across the province are struggling to provide grazing to their rhinos and other animals, having to provide supplementary feed at a significant cost for their grass-eating wildlife.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought tourism to a grinding halt. This is catastrophic for Africa’s wildlife as conservation has traditionally relied on ecotourism to fund the conservation of wilderness and wildlife.