Rhino Relocations

African Parks is a non-profit conservation organization that assumes responsibility for the rehabilitation and long-term management of a portfolio of 22 national parks across 12 African countries, spanning over 50 million acres. In addition to monitoring and research programs, their integrated conservation strategies combine habitat management with wildlife reintroductions and cross-border translocations.

Between 2015 and 2023 there have been several historic wildlife translocations.The first of these, from South Africa to Rwanda's Akagera National Park, reversed a decades-long local extinction of lion; the second, also from South Africa to Akagera, established a new stronghold for white rhino. In 2023, a population of 16 white rhinos was translocated from South Africa to Garamba National park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Earlier this month, African Parks bought the Hume rhinos, all 2,000 of them (the world's largest captive rhino breeding operation) in a bid to rescue and re-wild the rhino to safe and well-managed protected areas across Africa.