David Sheldrick Trust-Rhino Conservation Project

Project Animal(s) : Rhinoceros
Project Category : Mammals
Project Region : Africa
Project Type : Conservation
Project URL : http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/html/rhino_conservation.html
Project is timebound? : No

The David Sheldrick Trust was one of the first organisations to alert the world to the plight of the Black Rhino in Kenya after two decades of rampant poaching that all but annihilated the species within the country’s established National Parks and remote unprotected areas in the North. It masterminded the concept of electrically fenced enclosures within the Protected Areas so that outlying survivors of the species could be concentrated for breeding purposes. Aside from purchasing Crates and constructing Relocation Holding Stockades, the Trust was instrumental in the establishment of Kenya’s first enclosed Rhino Sanctuaries in Tsavo West and Lake Nakuru National Parks. It also pioneered the free release of excess animals from these Sanctuaries into Tsavo East, mindful of the fact that should security collapse (as it has in the past), enclosed rhinos are more at risk than those living free.

Project Agency : David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust