THE STORY of Great Plains Conservation and its Foundation has its roots in the earliest days of conservation when the idea of protecting pristine wilderness was recognised as a public good.Â
From those early conservation models came the notion that the entire ecosystem needed to be preserved to protect wilderness truly. This approach, maintaining and, when necessary, restoring functioning ecosystems, guides Great Plains Conservation and its Foundation.
To celebrate World Rhino Day, the foundation has set up a programme where you can actively change wildlife. Through Rhinos Without Borders, you can name a newborn rhino for $25,000. The program aims to protect wildlife from poachers. In another great offering from the Great Plains Foundation, Project Ranger allows you to sponsor a park ranger to keep them employed and the wildlife protected.
Rhino roaming freely totally unaware of the human dangers that have driven their numbers to under twenty thousand in the whole of Africa.
The Great Plains Foundation’s Rhinos Without Borders initiative relocates rhinos from high poaching zones in South Africa to safe Wilderness areas. To date, 87 rhinos were relocated to remote wilderness areas in Botswana and today roam free in the wild under high levels of safety and monitoring teams. Positively over 50 calves have been born to these rhinos that have been relocated as part of the Rhinos without Borders initiative. The relocation not only bought home rhinos to a land they once roamed but also bought in employment and training of the rhino anti-poaching teams and monitors.Â
For more information on how to help wildlife, head to https://greatplainsfoundation.com/rhinos-without-borders/ to find out more.Â