IAACWT
National Parks
Thank you for any support you can give to the endangered species of the world.

IN JUST 30 YEARS 97% OF THE WORLD’S RHINO POPULATION HAS BEEN WIPED OUT!

PLEASE HELP US TO SAVE THE REMAINING RHINOS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

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The Irish African/Asian Conservation & Wildlife Trust supports the Sebakwe Black Rhino Trust ( www.blackrhino.org ) in Zimbabwe, and the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, amongst others. Please help us by contacting these organisations and by becoming a member of our Trust.

A combination of poaching and habitat loss has reduced the total world rhino population from 500,000 to less than 13,500 individuals. (Save the Rhino International)

Our Trust raises funds by running sales of work, art exhibitions, fashion shows, craft fairs and pub quizzes and sponsored walks. Maybe you have some ideas about other means of fund raising among your friends. Just ring me at Phone No. 285-6672 and I will be delighted to hear from you.

Rhinos have been roaming the earth peacefully for 60 million years, yet in less than a generation have been driven to the brink of extinction by humans. (WWF)

This is the grim reality. Debates on the issue of conservation, poaching, fair trade, needs of the human population over the wildlife etc are all moot, if we can do nothing to preserve the remaining 3% of Rhino. 3%. It’s a very small number.

There are five species of rhino: the Black rhino (pop. 2,400 in South Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Zimbabwe), the White rhino – Southern (pop. 6,500, the majority of which are in South Africa) and Northern (pop. 30, in the Garamba National Park, in what was previously known as Zaire), the Indian rhino (pop.1,200, in isolated pockets in the Indian Subcontinent and Nepal), and the Sumatran and Javan rhino (pop. 270 est. – they are seldom sighted – found in Java, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak and Kalimantan in Borneo). ALL ARE ENDANGERED, and the Southern white rhino, although the most numerous of the rhino species, is totally dependent on conservation. (Care for the Wild)

Rhino horn is worth its weight in gold – the black market price for a rhino horn is $40,000. Made of nothing more than densely packed hair, it is reputed to have aphrodisiac benefits, but in fact its main use is for traditional Chinese medicines where it is powdered up and given to reduce fever. It is also used in Yemen for the making of ceremonial dagger handles. In 1993 all the rhino in Zimbabwe were dehorned as an emergency measure following losses from poaching to only 263 remaining rhino.