Our mission is to protect the desert-adapted black rhino in order to ensure security for these and other wildlife species, a protected habitat, and a sustainable future for local communities long into the future.
Save the Rhino Trust is a leader in working with and offering incentives to communities to share in the long-term benefits of successful conservation strategies. Black Rhino conservation continues to provide benefits through sustainable eco-tourism on community land, thereby increasing livelihood opportunities and incentives for local people to improve conservation measures.
Save the Rhino Trust works with Government facilitating black rhino conservation initiatives, unifying the local communities, NGOs, donors and other national and international partners to ensure the long- term survival of the species, the wilderness and the people.
The loose rocks. The sand. The climbs that seem perfectly reasonable when viewed from a distance and considerably less so when you are halfway up them. The cold of those first mornings when adding a little Jameson to the coffee at our first stop suddenly seemed less like indulgence and
The black rhino is a critically endangered hook-lipped browser. Namibia remains a global stronghold — including the last free-roaming, desert-adapted animals, which live without fences on communal land in the north-west.
From welder and mechanic to CEO of Save the Rhino Trust: Simson Uri-Khob’s 32-year journey protecting Namibia’s last free-roaming desert-adapted black rhinos. A story of tracking, community rangers, and a promise that these animals will still be here for the next generation.
A broken-down vehicle on a Sunday led welder Simson Uri-Khob into the desert with Namibia’s last free-roaming black rhinos. Over 32 years he went from tracker to CEO of Save the Rhino Trust—walking the land, training community rangers, and fighting to keep these animals alive so his children never have
In early 2020, Canadian miner B2Gold did something unusual with metal from its Otjikoto Mine in north-central Namibia. Instead of selling 1,000 ounces of gold into the ordinary market, it minted the metal into a limited run of Namibian Rhino Gold Bars and sold them to raise money for the
