Support Mounted Rangers Fighting Rhino Poaching

Dear friends and supporters

September is World Rhino Month – our busiest and most inspiring time of the year. It’s a month to celebrate our extraordinary wildlife heritage and the people who protect it. KwaZulu-Natal is home to one of the largest and most genetically diverse rhino population in South Africa, yet this legacy remains under threat from increasingly sophisticated poaching syndicates.

Rhino Month always brings a flurry of action and awareness, and this year is one of our busiest. We’re running conservation talks at schools and rolling out the month-long Civvies Day for Rhino campaign. We’ve been honoured as the main beneficiary of the Concours d’Elegance Classic Car Show in Durban and showcased our work at the Sign Africa show in Johannesburg. Celebrating the work of African rangers, we will again be participating in the Tusk Wildlife Ranger Challenge, this time running in Bonamanzi Game Reserve. We have life-size rhino models for public engagement, generously sponsored by Composite Innovations and Stuttafords, and will also be hosting K9 demonstrations, presentations, and Rhino art activations with partners like Wild Tomorrow and Blue Sky Society (phew!). Each of these activities strengthens awareness, grows support, and raises vital funds for our rangers on the ground – including our mounted patrol teams.

Your support makes this possible. Thanks to donors like you, our rangers and their horses receive the training, equipment, feed and veterinary care needed to stay effective and healthy on patrol. In the first half of 2025, South Africa recorded 195 rhinos poached – still too many, but 35 fewer than the same period last year. June even saw a historic low, with just 22 rhinos lost. This encouraging trend is evidence that coordinated efforts, including mounted patrols, are making a real impact.

From all of us at Project Rhino, thank you for standing with our mounted rangers and their horses. Together, we are safeguarding one of the world’s most important rhino populations – and inspiring the next generation of wildlife guardians.