The Rhino Impact Investment project was developed as a response to the dire predicament of the continent’s rhinoceros populations. It aimed to create an innovative source of finance to sustainably protect and recover black rhinos in particular, and perhaps serve as a blueprint to replicate this model to other rhino populations, similar ...

There are now around 5,550 black rhinos across Africa. In Kenya, between 1970 and 1990, black rhino numbers plummeted from over 20,000 to just 350, due to illegal poaching and habitat loss. That’s why ZSL began working with the Kenya Wildlife Service to conserve and secure the future of this iconic and endangered animal, and many others.

The greater one-horned rhino is restricted to less than a dozen protected areas, scattered across north and north-eastern India and southern Nepal. Poaching and the loss of their grassland and wetland habitat have left just 3,700 rhinos alive today.

Six years ago, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) started the Rhino Impact Investment Project, to eventually develop the world’s first ‘rhino bond’ that ties the return on the up-front investment directly to the rhino population growth it is supporting.

RII makes a vital contribution to the conservation and management of black rhino, a Critically Endangered flagship species. In order to achieve the SDGs, we need an international financial system that works for all countries. This needs to be combined with scaling up innovations and new financing instruments and approaches.

2024年9月20日 · Two years into the project’s implementation, growth rates among the black rhino population of both parks, measured and verified by Conservation Alpha, a consultancy working in the field of conservation, and the ZSL, have exceeded expectations, with …

2024年9月12日 · In 2021, ZSL recorded the largest numbers of greater one-horned rhino in Nepal since the 1960s. ZSL is supporting the slow but steady recovery of their population – greater one-horned rhino have a 16-month gestation period and usually give birth to a single calf approximately every three years – and its efforts have helped to achieve a 17% ...

A crucial and priority project for ZSL is our protection of the Critically Endangered black rhino in the Tsavo West National Park, southern Kenya. Since 1989, ZSL has worked to protect the species which had declined to just six individuals, from a …

Inserting a tiny tracker into the horn of a rhino could save its life and protect others. But how do you get up-close to a one-tonne rhino that doesn’t want to be found? ZSL conservationist Moses Wekesa explains...

2022年6月23日 · The impetus for addressing the funding shortfall with a rhino bond came from United for Wildlife. At that stage, a partnership between seven leading wildlife charities, including the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Royal Foundation of …