Rhinos protection

Representation

The protection and management of rhinos by LEO is a very important and very sensitive subject.

All volunteers must agree not to broadcast any image or video representing the rhinos of the Abelana reserve. It is not forbidden totakephotos of rhinos but you have to keep them for yourself.

The fear is that these documents will be used by poachers, the risk is real and omnipresent.

Poachers kill rhinos and then saw off their horns. The horns are consumed in China and Vietnam in the form of a so-called aphrodisiac powder and sell for very high prices, enough to attract poachers who often act with the complicity of corrupt locals.

To prevent the rhinos from being killed, private reserves and some national parks cut the horns of their animals, the horns grow back after a few years.

Representation of the evolution of the number of rhinos in Kruger Park

In 2010

According to the managing authority of the Kruger National Park, in 2010, more than 10,000 rhinos (black and white) lived in the Kruger National Park.

At the end of 2019, there were only 3,817! Rhinos are victims of poaching associated with local corruption, their numbers are decreasing from year to year.

End of 2019

If they are not effectively protected they will disappear.