$45,000 to Borana Conservancy in Kenya. Our thanks to Ardea Partners, which donated $40,000 to help cover general operating costs. Borana named four of its black rhinos in honour of the gift: Mumu, Dudu, Honey and Poppy. Other donors supporting general operating and rhino monitoring costs at Borana were Dawn Cooke and family ($5,000) and St George’s School in Newport, Rhode Island ($1,053.65), where some of the students held a dress-down day for the ‘Crash and Herd’ initiative.

$25,000 for Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia, a programme we’ve supported since our formation in 1994. This grant from Ardea Partners is being used for rations for SRT’s rhino monitoring teams, with the rest being put towards the cost of a new vehicle, (together with income from selling off one of SRT’s older Landcruisers), to supply and redeploy monitoring teams.

$123,000 for Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa, thanks to a grant from the Woodtiger Fund. This will pay for 5 motorbikes ($36,000), Field Ranger uniforms and boots ($53,000) and ration packs $33,500. Another grant of $25,000 from Ardea Partners will mostly likely be used to pay for 3 or 4 quadbikes, unless more urgent priorities crop up.

$1,066.26 was awarded to UK-registered charity Save the Rhino International, our sister non-profit, thanks to donations made in response to its ‘#RhinoRealTalk’ appeal for annual funds.

$3,300 for Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation to help pay for the transition from the Park’s current analogue radio communications system to a new and much more secure digital radio system. This will significantly reduce the risk of security compromise through unencrypted analogue radios, which currently pose a drawback for law-enforcement work and rapid-reaction responses.

$1,000 for Borana Conservancy in Kenya from the Taliaferro Family Fund for general rhino-monitoring costs.

$3,297.54 was awarded to UK-registered charity Save the Rhino International, our sister non-profit, thanks to donations made in response to its ‘#RhinoRealTalk’ appeal for annual funds

$3,000 for the Association of Private Land Rhino Sanctuaries in Kenya from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation to help pay for camera traps, metal cases, SD cards and battery chargers, to be distributed to rhino sites in Kenya to assist rhino-monitoring efforts.

$5,820 to 51 Degrees Ltd in Kenya from the Bently Foundation helped to pay for intelligence and investigations work in support of anti-poaching efforts.

$686,983.10 for the North Luangwa Conservation Program in Zambia from the Wildcat Foundation is part of the Foundation’s latest 2-year grant that covers a number of different aspects of NLCP’s protection and law-enforcement work in North Luangwa National Park: salaries for Village Game Scouts working in the Game Management Areas surrounding the Park; training; performance awards, incentives and motivation packages; vehicle purchase and running costs; and general law-enforcement equipment for the Park’s scouts.

$500 for Borana Conservancy in Kenya from Allen Northcutt for general rhino-monitoring costs.

$6,000 for the Association of Private Land Rhino Sanctuaries in Kenya from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation to help cover the salary and benefits of the APLRS Administrator, who works alongside the Rhino Program Coordinator in the Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters, to support the implementation of the Kenya Black Rhino Action Plan 2017-2021.

$3,000 for the For Rangers initiative in Kenya from the Once upon a Time Foundation. For Rangers not only provides essential items of kit such as new uniforms and boots, but also the things that improve living standards and increase morale, including hundreds of pairs of cross-country trainers for rangers based in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

$25,000 for Lolesha Luangwa, the conservation education program delivered by the North Luangwa Conservation Program in Zambia, from Disney Conservation Fund will help cover operating costs for the period July 2019-June 2020. Lolesha Luangwa targets 21 schools in the Game Management Areas surrounding North Luangwa National Park. It is not enough simply to reintroduce rhinos, provide security and hope that local communities will support their conservation and, more broadly, NLCP’s work. It is also necessary to increase local communities’ understanding of and relationship with their local environment by providing support to school curricula and implementing initiatives that allow children and adults to connect conservation with communities, which ultimately benefits the conservation of rhinos, and other endangered species and habitats.

$45,517 to Ol Jogi Conservancy in Kenya from Bradley and Kristen Garlinghouse is paying for a high-tech digital X-ray machine for Ol Jogi’s veterinary laboratory.

$15,000 to Ol Jogi Conservancy in Kenya from Ed Calkins and Linda Sonders: $2,870 on a new cheetah enclosure for the orphaned cub that has been hand-reared prior to re-release; $1,512 for seven celebratory Rhino Dinners, during which staff name new rhino calves; $6,905 for intelligence gathering and analysis, and $3,713 towards an elephant-exclusion zone around the big dam while research is done on competition for browse between species.

$40,000 for the Association of Private Land Rhino Sanctuaries (APLRS) in Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service from the Bently Foundation. This will pay for the new post of APLRS Data Clerk to clean up data from a dozen major rhino populations in Kenya, allowing each rhino population to be audited annually through a remote, cost-effective and swift method, and enable smoother decision making via annual KWS-led translocation planning meetings. The improved data management and analysis will inform, enhance and greatly improve Kenya’s meta-population management. It also helped pay for the salary and benefits of the APLRS Administrator, to help coordinate private sector efforts to deliver the Kenya Black Rhino Action Plan 2017-2021. And finally, the funds would cover the costs of a Laikipia rhino range expansion workshop for stakeholders, to identify objectives, roles, responsibilities, timescale, milestones and budgets.

$25,000 for uMkhuze Game Reserve in South Africa from the Bently Foundation to complete the upgrade and fit-out of uMkhuze’s Forward Operations Center (FOC). The FOC is integral to the increased gathering and processing of data through the use of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and to directing and increasing operational efficiency.

$8,000 for Ol Jogi Conservancy in Kenya from Axel Vervoordt USA, LLC will be used to create a library for Ol Jogi’s schools’ program.

$9,000 for uMkhuze Game Reserve in South Africa from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation is being used to help pay for LoRaWAN devices that will be implanted in the horns of rhinos being translocated into the Reserve, and issued to all rangers for their personal protection. The devices provide constant data updates that inform the Forward Operations Centre of ranger and vehicle locations.

$100,000 for the For Rangers initiative in Kenya, thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor via Goldman Sachs Philanthropy. Funds raised by For Rangers not only provide essential items of kit such as new uniforms and boots, but also the things that improve living standards and increase morale, including anti-snake venom, solar power for pickets and outposts, so that rangers can recharge batteries and cellphones and have hot-water showers.

$1,766 for Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa from a number of unsolicited donations was used to help pay for ranger camping and rhino-monitoring equipment.

$1,000 for Ol Jogi Conservancy in Kenya from The Barker Welfare Foundation will support Ol Jogi’s hand-reared black rhinos Alfie, Bobby and Meimei.

$300 was awarded to UK-registered charity Save the Rhino International, our sister non-profit, thanks to funds raised by American participants in the London Marathon 2019, for which Save the Rhino provided charity Gold Bond places.

$975 was also awarded to Save the Rhino International, thanks to donations made in response to its ‘On the Edge’ appeal for annual funds.