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    • About rhinos
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RHINOS IN CRISIS

Rhinos. One of the oldest living mammals on earth. Instantly recognisable. Undeniably iconic. Surprisingly charismatic and utterly irreplaceable.


Their role in the ecosystem is unsurpassed. Rhinos are nature's environmental engineers. As well as shaping landscape topography through grazing, wallowing, and defecating, they also increase biodiversity. The changes they make ensure the survival of countless other species of flora and fauna. Lose rhinos and we risk losing other species too.


Our unprecedented activities have had a profound impact on rhinos and their habitats, contributing to the decline of rhino populations.  Environmental pressures and illegal wildlife trade are threatening rhinos' survival, putting this magnificent, sentient animal at risk.


If rhino populations continue to decline at the same rate as they have in the past decade, rhinos could be extinct in the wild by 2032.

Crisis statistics

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES

Deaths of rhinos due to poaching, black market horn prices, and seizures of rhino horn according to the latest data

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES

As a keystone species, rhinos are nature's megafaunal architects. They have a disproportionate and unequalled impact on the ecosystem's structure, health, and function.

ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE

POACHING: THE AFTERMATH

POACHING: THE AFTERMATH

In recent years, wildlife crimes have escalated from a conservation problem to a humanitarian issue and a global threat to national security. 

POACHING: THE AFTERMATH

POACHING: THE AFTERMATH

POACHING: THE AFTERMATH

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