Rhinoceros Conservation Fund

Provide financial assistance for projects for the effective, long-term conservation of African rhino populations and their habitats. The objectives are to increase population growth, management and governance improvements at key rhino sites, and to develop greater national leadership and capacity, stakeholder collaboration, and effective CITES implementation in key rhino range states. This program supports projects that prioritize direct site-based conservation actions for Key 1 and Key 2 populations and other populations that are important to the survival of critically endangered black rhinoceros. Project work occurs within rhinoceros range and show clear relevance to rhinoceros field conservation actions, identify immediate threats to rhinoceros survival and support direct conservation activities to eliminate or reduce those threats, address biological management of rhinoceros populations, demonstrate how they address regional and national rhinoceros management plans, develop capacity, and implement CITES.