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A mud-caked rhino cow nuzzles her small calf on the red earth at Ziwa

Rhinos in Uganda

Security for the Rhinos of Ziwa, the sanctuary that brought Rhinos back to Uganda.

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Rhinos back in Uganda

Ziwa Rhino & Wildlife Ranch is home of Uganda’s Rhino breeding program to re-introduce Rhinos that became extinct in Uganda in the early eighties.

In 2005/2006 eight Rhinos were brought into Uganda with the help of a number of donors. Two of them went to the Uganda Wildlife Education Center as phase I of the reintroduction program: Education and Awareness raising. Six Rhinos came to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, a 7000 ha electric fenced area in Nakasongola district along the road between Kampala and Murchison Falls National Park.

Visitors of the sanctuary can enjoy observing the Rhinos by tracking them on foot, accompanied by rangers.

Recently, the first Rhinos have been translocated from the breeding sanctuary to Ajai Wildlife Reserve and Kidepo Valley National Park, two of the areas where the Rhino occurred before their extinction in Uganda.

A rhino cow with a bird on her back stands in tall grass with her calf

No Rhino has been poached in Uganda since the reintroduction program has started

and we are eager to help in keeping the sanctuary safe!

Three rangers laugh together in the grass, rhinos grazing behind them

What your gift protects

Omogolo Wildlife Trust is supporting the Rhinos at Ziwa Rhino & Wildlife Ranch, to assist in providing the very necessary security for the Rhinos.

With the ongoing poaching problem in Africa, the ranger patrols are extremely important to prevent poachers entering the sanctuary and to monitor the Rhino groups.

Modern and good working equipment is a necessity: think of (GPS) radios and transport for the rangers, a reliable electric fence. But also education and community conservation plays an important role, to ensure the future of the Rhinos in Uganda!

Help us support Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary! Remember that 100% of your donation will go to the sanctuary!

Give to the Rhinos

From Solio to Ziwa, 2005 until now

  • A white rhino stands in dry grass at Solio, Kenya
    Capture of 4 Rhinos at Solio, Kenya (February 2005)
  • Four rhinos inside the wooden boma at Ziwa
    Introducing them to Ziwa in the boma
  • A girl in a blue dress sits beside a ranger at Ziwa
  • A sedated rhino lies on the ground while the team fits a transmitter
    Implanting transmitters...
  • Five rhinos gathered at a waterhole in the sanctuary
    Exploring the sanctuary
  • Two rhinos close together in the grass, one mounting the other
    Exploring each other!
  • A rhino crate is unloaded from a cargo plane at night
    The 2 Disney Rhinos arrive at Entebbe airport
  • A visitor and a ranger track rhinos on foot, a rhino in the distance
    Tracking the Rhinos
  • A newborn rhino calf beside the horned head of its mother
    Born in March 2016
  • Two rhinos rest under trees in green grass
    Male calf of Kori, November 2021
  • A rhino cow and her calf walk away into the bush
  • A mud-caked rhino cow and her calf stand together on red earth at Ziwa
  • A rhino calf rests in the grass in front of its mother

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Ziwa Rhino & Wildlife Ranch

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