Projects

As well as the long-term, ongoing field programmes that we support, we occasionally make one-off grants to an NGO for a particular - perhaps short-term - project.

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  2013 African Rhino Specialist Group meeting

  Kenya

  The IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Group meets every 2-3 years. The 2013 meeting is being held in Laikipia, Kenya, in February. Rhino conservation managers, donors and other experts will discuss a full agenda over six days. Save the Rhino International

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  Tackling the demand in Vietnam

  Viet Nam

  With rhino poaching escalating, SRI is now working with a new partner, Education for Nature Vietnam, who do fantastic work in raising awareness and tackling wildlife crime within Vietnam, to try and reduce the demand for rhino horn.

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  Using modern technology to protect Africa's rhinos: security and technology workshop

  Namibia

  A practical, technical meeting for rhino field programme managers from African rhino range states and India, to examine new technologies for use for rhino montoring and anti-poaching.

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  Building leadership capacity in Indonesia

  Indonesia

  This project will be part of a Master’s of Science and then PhD undertaken by Mr Sectionov, who currently works as the Indonesia Liaison for the IRF. Mr Sectionov has conducted research and field conservation work with Javan rhinos

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  The scene of the crime

  Namibia

  In February and March 2012, participants from the Namibian government and local NGOs undertook a series of Scene-of-the-crime training courses delivered by Wildlife Investigators Rod Potter and Wayne Evans

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  Fundraising training courses in India

  India

  In December 2011, SRI's Director Cathy Dean travelled with Susie Ellis, Executive Director of the International Rhino Foundation, to West Bengal in India, where they delivered 2 x fundraising courses to local NGOs

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  A southern African sabbatical

  Namibia

  From February to July 2011, Save the Rhino's Director, Cathy Dean, and her husband, Kenneth Donaldson, spent a six-month sabbatical working with Save the Rhino Trust, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the Dambari Wildlife Trust

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  Exchange visits for rhino monitors

  Zimbabwe

  In July 2011, the Lowveld Rhino Trust in Zimbabwe played host to rhino monitors and security managers from Kenya (Maasailand Preservation Trust, Kenya Wildlife Service, Ol Pejeta Conservancy and Lewa Wildlife Conservancy) and from the Namibian Ministry of