Success of Black Rhino Range Expansion Project: 400 rhinos and counting

WWF South Africa’s Black Rhino Range Expansion Project (BRREP) has reached a new milestone with over 400 rhinos recorded across its project sites since 2003.

- STAFF REPORTER

This number includes all rhinos moved to new sites and their offspring, and in some cases, second and third generation offspring.

With fewer than 6 500 black rhinos left in the world, this means BRREP has facilitated custodianship of 16% of the South African population across 17 sites.

WWF said BRREP began as a three-year project with the goal of establishing one, or two, black rhino populations of 20 rhinos each.

“In those early days, nobody envisioned that the project would still be running 22 years later, now in its eighth three-year phase, with over 400 rhinos in its metapopulation spread across several sites.”