Category: Black Rhinos

11.19.2025

The Unsung Heroes of Wildlife Protection: Reliable Vehicles

IRF serves as a funder, partner, convener, facilitator and trainer for rhino conservation programs through in-country partners and staff to…View Full Release »

11.10.2025

Notes from the Field: The Saga of an Earless Black Rhino in Zimbabwe

In October of 1992, Raoul du Toit was implementing a project to establish rhino breeding groups on private lands in…View Full Release »

02.04.2025

Swimming for Javan Rhinos

Team Rhino Spotlight – Creative Champions for Conservation After struggling with seven bouts of COVID-19 and being in and out…View Full Release »

01.29.2025

Save a Rhino, Shape the Future

In the early 1990s, Zimbabwe’s black rhino population faced a severe crisis due to rampant poaching in the Zambezi Valley….View Full Release »

07.23.2024

What if we did nothing?: Measuring the impact conservation has had on the black rhino population 

In the early 1900s, Africa was home to an estimated 100,000 black rhinos. Sadly their numbers plummeted to less than…View Full Release »

05.22.2024

How Science is Being Used to Secure a Brighter Future for Black Rhinos in Namibia

This blog was written by IRF partner, Minnesota Zoo Foundation The International Rhino Foundation (IRF) supports rhino conservationists and scientists around…View Full Release »

06.26.2023

From the Field: News from the Latest Rhino Management Operation

The Lowveld Rhino Trust (LRT), our on-the-ground partners in Zimbabwe, manage the rhino monitoring program in Bubye Valley Conservancy, a…View Full Release »

04.24.2023

Belinda and Other Rhinos in Zimbabwe’s Bubye Valley are Thriving

It’s widely considered that seven years is the average age at which wild black rhino females give birth to their…View Full Release »

02.01.2023

State of the Rhino Update: Rhino Poaching Nearly Doubles in Namibia

February 01, 2023 Earlier this week, officials reported that 87 rhinos were killed by poachers in Namibia last year. This…View Full Release »

01.25.2023

State of the Rhino Update: Kenya and India’s state of Assam report zero rhino poaching losses in 2022

India’s state of Assam, where the majority of the country’s greater one-horned rhino population resides, announced they  had zero rhino…View Full Release »