What we do

We support a number of ongoing rhino conservation programmes by funding a range of activities with grants and in collaboration with our conservation partners. You can read more about these by clicking on the lefthand tabs.

Save the Rhino International focuses on genetically viable populations of critically endangered rhinoceros species in the wild.

“Genetically viable” populations are generally taken to mean those with a minimum of 20 individuals. In some areas, smaller populations have been known to breed successfully, although it is not know what the impact is on the long-term genetic diversity of such a population.

For rhino populations to qualify as being “wild”, three conditions must be satisfied:

• They must be free-ranging within an area large enough to sustain a breeding group
• The area in question must consist of natural rhino habitat
• They must survive by feeding off natural vegetation in the area (ie, without human intervention)