By Save the Rhino
THE Lowveld region in Zimbabwe, conservation was not on lockdown and in 2020 saw a baby boom for rhinos.
Rhino numbers are not only on the increase in the area, with 17 new black rhino calves and two white rhino calves spotted during 2020, but poaching is down thanks to rangers’ dedication and your support.
Zimbabwe is home to the world’s fourth-largest black rhino population after South Africa, Namibia, and Kenya, making the country an important frontier for conserving this Critically Endangered species.
Between 2007 and 2009, nearly a quarter of the country’s rhinos were lost to poaching.
However, thanks to the work of our conservation partner, the Lowveld Rhino Trust (LRT), the Lowveld region is now home to 90% of Zimbabwe’s total black rhino population, a huge increase from just 4% in 1990. Whilst the global black rhino population is slowly growing, poaching remains an ever-present threat. Without vigilant protection and monitoring, black rhinos cou
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