SRT`s Projects

                 Rhino Monitoring and Security

The field staff are divided into Patrol-Teams, each regularly patrolling a specified area within the 25.000 square kilometres rhino range. All fresh rhino tracks are picked up during such patrols by vehicle, foot and camel and followed on foot until the rhino is sighted. For the monitoring also a Cessna 172 is used, donated by the German-Namibiam Society.

A census of all the rhino is performed at certain intervals in conjunction with the Ministry of Wildlife, Conservation and Tourism.

           Community - Involvement

The SAVE THE RHINO TRUST - NAMIBIA has established one of the first Community Based Species Survival (CBSS) Projects for the rhino in Africa, with direct community involvement in the conservation of rhino, and benefits received through conservation and tourism going to the local population.
Components of this CBSS Project are:

• the ”Indaba” - centre at Mai go Ha base camp,
• setting up several craft-centres
• the NAMDEB Training Centre at the Ugab Base Camp

                   Ecological Tourism

During the last years several tourism ventures have been supported by SRT for the benefit of the community. A follow up joint venture between SRT and Wilderness Safaris will start in June 2006 and will include safaris of different types.