LATEST GRANTS

Zambia57.63%
South Africa17.60%
Kenya16.24%
Other8.53%

YOUR DONATIONS

Thanks to your donations, we could make a difference for rhinos through: ranger support through training and equipment, rhino protection and biological management, community outreach, and projects to stop illegal wildlife markets.

Below is a breakdown of every grant made since January 2023.

December 2023

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uMkhuze Game Reserve

We sent $4,000 from The Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation to uMkhuze Game Reserve in South Africa, the first of three instalments to help cover the salary costs of uMkhuze’s Rhino Monitor, Joshua Rogers. Understanding the population dynamics of a protected area’s rhino population is key to making management decisions, for example, which animals to select for translocation to a new rhino area.

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Save the Rhino Trust Namibia

$100 received in miscellaneous donations was sent to Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia, for its ongoing core costs.

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Mukogodo Forest

We sent $25,000 from the Springhouse Foundation, for projects at Lokusero Primary School, a boarding and day government school located in the Mukogodo Forest, which neighbors Borana Conservancy. The School is home to 370 students and 10 teachers, current enrolment is from PP1 to Grade 8. Borana Conservancy has been supporting the school with the construction of classrooms, teachers’ salaries and student scholarships. The Foundation’s grant will be allocated as follows: $3,500 to create a playground for the children; $500 to buy equipment including soccer balls; $5,000 to convert the borehole from diesel- to solar-powered; and $16,000 to use for priority needs, e.g. solar-power upgrades, new toilets etc.

November 2023

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African Rhino Specialist Group

We sent a final $4,000 from The Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation for the work of the IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Group’s Scientific Officer, Dr Sam Ferreira.

October 2023

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African Rhino Specialist Group

We sent $4,000 from The Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation, the second of three instalments, for the work of the IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Group’s Scientific Officer, Dr Sam Ferreira.

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North Luangwa National Park

We forwarded $506,860 from Y2 of the Wildcat Foundation’s 2-year grant towards law-enforcement activities in North Luangwa National Park: salaries for Village Game Scouts and the Strategic Law-Enforcement Technical Advisor; training; incentives for excellent performance; vehicle fuel maintenance; and aerial surveillance (Cessna fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter).

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Save the Rhino International

Another $20,300 from the Wildcat Foundation was ring-fenced for our sister non-profit, Save the Rhino International, which manages the performance and financial reporting on the grant.

September 2023

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Manas National Park

A final $4,000 from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation was sent to help cover the remaining unfunded needs of habitat maintenance work in Manas NP in Assam, India; any remaining funds will be allocated to Wildlife Crime Training Courses.

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African Rhino Specialist Group

We also sent $4,000 from The Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation, the first of three instalments, for the work of the IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Group’s Scientific Officer, Dr Sam Ferreira.

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Borana Conservancy

We sent a couple of donations for the Borana Education Support Program in Kenya, made in honor of Ralph Winter’s birthday: $1,000 from Mark and Carrie Sisson; and another $1,000 from Raphael and Katherine Sidelsky.

July 2023

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ForRangers

$200,000 from an anonymous donor was awarded to the ForRangers initiative: ForRangers’ grants support the following areas: Medical (including clinic or hospital cover, life insurance); Uniforms and wellbeing (e.g. gym equipment, entertainment, motivational trips); Equipment (law enforcement and wildlife monitoring); Living standards (accommodation, ablutions blocks, solar power, mess and kitchen or canteen); Training (e.g. law enforcement, First Aid, fitness, financial literacy); and, very occasionally, other aspects (e.g. one-off emergency funding during the COVID19 crisis).

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Manas National Park

$4,000 from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation, the second of three instalments, was sent to help cover the remaining unfunded needs of habitat maintenance work in Manas NP in Assam, India; any remaining funds will be allocated to Wildlife Crime Training Courses.

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$75,000, the first of two, equal instalments, from The Woodtiger Fund , was sent to pay KPMG for its work on Project Blood Orange, a follow-the-money investigation into a South African rhino horn poaching and trafficking syndicate.

June 2023

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Lowveld Rhino Trust

$4,000, the last of three such instalments from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation, was sent to Lowveld Rhino Trust in Zimbabwe to help cover its rhino monitoring costs. LRT monitors the Key 1 (i.e. 100+) populations of black and of white rhinos hosted on Bubye Valley Conservancy.

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Manas National Park

$4,000 from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation, the first of three instalments, was sent to help cover the remaining unfunded needs of habitat maintenance work in Manas NP in Assam, India; any remaining funds will be allocated to Wildlife Crime Training Courses. Manas NP, in common with many other protected areas, suffers from invasive species of flora, which are not palatable to rhinos (and other wildlife). By clearing tracts of land from such invasive species, park managers are effectively increasing the size of the land available, thus providing the right conditions for the natural expansion of the Park’s Greater one-horned rhino population.

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Project Blood Orange

$150,000 from an anonymous donor was sent to pay KPMG for its work on Project Blood Orange, a follow-the-money investigation into a South African rhino horn poaching and trafficking syndicate.

May 2023

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Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park

We sent $50,000 from Ardea Cares, to improve responses to poaching incidents in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa: $44,342 will be used to renovate and upgrade twin safari tents for SAPS officers based at the TACJOC; $44,63 to buy landing beacons and power units for helicopter landing spots in the Park; $1,303 to buy a new laptop for a data analyst; and the remaining $1,359 is for Wildlife ACT’s administration costs in managing the implementation of this project. Having a fully operational Tactical Joint Operations Command (TACJOC, staffed by SAPS) adjacent to Nerve Centre (staffed by EKZNW), in HiP will facilitate the effective integration of responses to wildlife-crime incidents specifically in HiP and for 10 other rhino reserves in KZN

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Borana Conservancy

A further $75,000 from Ardea Cares was awarded to Borana Conservancy in Kenya: : $27,000 will help pay for a new Landcruiser for Borana’s team of National Police Reservists; $3,500 for 10 x pairs of binoculars for the monitors; $34,285 for uniforms (NPR armed rangers @ $10,112; and Rhino Monitors @ $24,173); and $10,215 towards the Y2 (calendar year 2023) costs of Mazingira Yetu, the conservation education program.

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Borana Conservancy

A grant of $19,200 from our core funds was also awarded to Borana Conservancy in Kenya, to pay for the construction of 5,300m of pipeline and four additional waterpoints in several locations across Borana. This will expand the habitat available for wildlife across the Conservancy, and improve resilience in times of drought.

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Blood Orange

$75,000 from Ardea Cares was sent to pay KPMG for its work on Project Blood Orange, a follow-the-money investigation into a South African rhino horn poaching and trafficking syndicate.

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Save the Rhino Trust Namibia

We sent $5,000 from the Reid Burns Foundation to Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia, to increase the number of water sources available to the Kunene Region’s black rhino. SRT had originally considered digging a new borehole, but in the event, the Ministry advised that it did not want to go ahead with artificial boreholes, but rather to dig out natural springs that had become clogged up, to allow the water to flow again. For example, one area used to have several rhinos moving through it but, since its main spring dried up, they have moved out. The water is very close to the surface, so SRT will need to use a jack-hammer (which it already possesses), some cement, and lots of manpower; eventually it will install a solar-powered pump.

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Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism

We sent $49,944 from our core funds to the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism in Namibia, to pay for an intelligence and informants operation in the Kunene and Erongo Regions during the period 1 July 2023 to 31 December 2024.

April 2023

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Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park

$1,000 from the Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation was sent to support anti-poaching efforts in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa. HiP has been hit hard by poaching in recent years, particularly as protection in Kruger National Park has improved.

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uMkhuze Game Reserve

Another $1,000 from the Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation was sent to support anti-poaching efforts in uMkhuze Game Reserve in KZN, South Africa, which fortunately has not suffered any rhino-poaching losses since September 2019, when one white rhino bull was killed.

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ForRangers

A repeat of March to the Top’s annual donation was sent to the ForRangers initiative. By improving rangers’ welfare, they will feel invested in their work; with their families looked after and better equipment to do their job, they will be safer, happier, more effective and ultimately less likely to help poaching syndicates out of desperation. ForRangers’ grants support the following areas: Medical (including clinic or hospital cover, life insurance); Uniforms and wellbeing (e.g. gym equipment, entertainment, motivational trips); Equipment (law enforcement and wildlife monitoring); Living standards (accommodation, ablutions blocks, solar power, mess and kitchen or canteen); Training (e.g. law enforcement, First Aid, fitness, financial literacy); and, very occasionally, other aspects (e.g. one-off emergency funding during the COVID19 crisis).

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Association of Prviate and community Land Rhino Sanctuaries

$25,000 from the Donald and Maureen Green Foundation was sent to the Association of Prviate and community Land Rhino Sanctuaries, for the Laikipia Rhino Range Expansion Program. A number of private and community conservancies in Laikipia have expressed an interest in becoming rhino guardians. In order to get “rhino ready”, they will need to undertake a series of assessments and build / expand where necessary, e.g. infrastructure, law-enforcement provision etc. The precise use for this grant has not yet been agreed, but will be defined during the coming months.

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Save the Rhino International

$1,155 raised by Gina Savastano and another $692.98 raised by Stacey Lai was sent to Save the Rhino International, which had provided Gina and Stacey with the much-sought-after charity places in the April 2023 London Marathon.

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Lowveld Rhino Trust

The second of three instalments of $4,000 from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation was sent to the Lowveld Rhino Trust in Zimbabwe (see March).

March 2023

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Lolldaiga Conservancy

$125,000, received from an anonymous donor, was sent to Lolldaiga Conservancy in Kenya, to cover the cost of the new mounted patrol unit: $59,500 for the horses and tack, and $12,000 for a stables manager to oversee ranger-rider training and the procurement of new horses. Another $33,500 from the same donor paid for Y1 operating expenditure. The remaining $20,000 is being used to build a camp for the unit. Lolldaiga has applied to become a guardian for some of Kenya’s rhinos; becoming ‘rhino-ready’ includes increasing its security patrols. With a large area and hilly terrain, vehicle and/or foot patrols would be difficult. Horseback patrols will be both cheaper and more effective, with the added bonus of generating income via horse-safari-based tourism.

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Lowveld Rhino Trust

$4,000, the first of three such instalments from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation, was sent to Lowveld Rhino Trust in Zimbabwe to help cover its rhino monitoring costs. LRT monitors the Key 1 (i.e. 100+) populations of black and of white rhinos hosted on Bubye Valley Conservancy.

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Borana Conservancy

$12,756, donated by Chris Richardson’s family and great friends, was sent to Borana Conservancy in Kenya to build a ranger outpost at Arijiju in Chris’s memory.

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North Luangwa Conservation Program

The second instalment of the Wildcat Foundation’s 2-year grant, worth, $674,575, was sent to the North Luangwa Conservation Program in Zambia. These funds are helping to cover the cost of law-enforcement activities in North Luangwa National Park: salaries for Village Game Scouts and the Strategic Law-Enforcement Technical Advisor; training; incentives for excellent performance; vehicle fuel maintenance; and aerial surveillance (Cessna fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter).

February 2023

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Borana Conservancy

We sent $293.54 (originally $300, but charges had been deducted en route to us) received from Francis and Sandi Blake, in memory of Tony and Rose Dyer, to Borana Conservancy in Kenya for its Mobile Health Clinic (BMC). The BMC, fashioned out of an old Land Rover and staffed by two nurses, an invaluable pharmacist and a kiMaasai and kiTurkana translator, is, simply put, “All For Conservation”. Its goal is to provide the opportunity to access family planning, health lectures to school children and the community at large, HIV Aids awareness and testing, antenatal advice, child immunization programs and basic health care to all members of the local community, particularly those who do not otherwise have access to adequate healthcare services.

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Borana Conservancy

We sent $31,186 received from Wild Philanthropy to pay for the elephant fence round Lokusero Primary School. Given the location of the School within the forest, there is a pressing need for an electric fence in order to keep elephants and other wildlife out of the School compound, and thus keep the students and teachers safe. The beneficiary community around the School are Maasai pastoralists, with an average population of approximately 230 households. The fence length will be approximately 1.6km, and the total project will cost $33,836. The works will take place in the period January to May 2023. Once this fence has been built, Borana would like to establish a permaculture project at the School, providing fresh fruit and vegetables to the School kitchens: this will be phase 3 and is an extremely exciting project. However, in order for this to happen, the water storage systems and most importantly electric fence must be put in place first.

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Association of Private and community Land Rhino Sanctuaries

We sent the final instalment of $4,000 from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation for John Gitonga’s Master’s degree (see January).

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Working Dogs Workshop

The Board of Directors awarded $65,000 from its core funds for the organization and facilitation of a fourth canine workshop, to be held later this year. The workshop will involve participants from a wide range of rhino programs across southern and eastern Africa and expert speakers from all over the world. This workshop would include practical training, detection, and tracking sessions, veterinary care, welfare, husbandry, conditioning and fitness and law-enforcement. The proven effectiveness of both detection and tracking dogs in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) has led to a marked increase in canine units in a number of countries across Africa. However, many of these units continue to operate in isolation, with little or no communication or cooperation with other units. The need for networking was identified in a report entitled ‘Assessment of detection and tracking dog programs in Africa’ produced by Dr. Megan Parker (from Working Dogs for Conservation) following two workshops held in 2015. Save the Rhino has previously been involved in the organization and facilitation of three successful canine workshops, at which canine handlers were able to upskill and share valuable information and expertise.

January 2023

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Association of Private and community Land Rhino Sanctuaries

We sent $8,000 from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation for the APLRS’s Administrator, John Gitonga, to study for a 2-year part-time Master’s of Science in Data Science and Analytics (MSc DSA) at Strathmore University in Nairobi. This will not only be a critical step in sharpening John’s skills to undertake his work but will also make a great contribution in the conservation and management of Kenyan rhino. The funds will cover tuition fees, various documents / licenses, and data collection, analysis and fieldwork expenses.

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North Luangwa Conservation Program

A $50,000 grant from Conservation Nation was sent to the North Luangwa Conservation Program for the project entitled “Breaking barriers to create female participation in natural resource management”, which will run from Dec 2022 to Nov 2023 inc. Specifically, this project seeks to increase female representation in the wildlife protection sector in North Luangwa by focusing on: Training for female staff and spouses ($20,000); Training for male staff and, where applicable, spouses ($20,000); Spousal visits to field program to increase understanding of spouses’ work ($2,000); and buy essential female-related equipment, kit and resources to cater to women’s needs in the field ($8,000)

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Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park

$20,000 from the Woodtiger Fund (the Y1 instalment of 3-year grant totaling $97,000) was sent for a project entitled: “Increasing the effectiveness of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park’s K9 Unit”. These funds will be used to pay for: recruiting K9 Unit Coordinator and helping to pay the salary; recruit an additional handler and paying their salary; provide ongoing training of dogs and handlers; maintaining the K9 unit vehicle; replace vehicle tires as necessary; maintaining the K9 unit’s camp; purchasing veterinary supplies as needed; providing and replacing equipment; and administering and reporting on the project.

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Save the Rhino International

A grant of $4,000 was made to SRI Inc.’s sister organization, Save the Rhino International, from funds donated by Indasa, with a request that they be directed to the charity for its ongoing rhino conservation work.

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