Crash of rhino’s thriving in rehabilitation
Rhino poaching is the illegal act of slaughtering rhinoceros for their horns, as of 2020 80% of the world's remaining rhinos are found in South Africa, which has become the epicentre of rhino poaching.
The death of a rhino for just a horn is tragic, but sadly many calves are left orphaned in the wild, and without intervention they almost always succumb to predators or starvation.
As a the donor of the sanctuary and their story starts in 2014, when a rhino calf was left for dead by a heartless group of poachers and having been asked for financial assistance by Care for Wild (CFW) the company agreed and immediately began supporting the sanctuary through an annual agreement.
The calf, later to be named Wynter, was left an orphan after poachers butchered her mother and she found herself under siege by a cackle of hyena. The savage attack by the hyenas left her badly injured and when she arrived at CFW she was barely clutching to life
During her recovery Wynter befriended two other orphaned rhinos at the centre, Tana and Mabush, which were in a similar state of despair when admitted to CFW. But just like Wynter, they too overcame their injuries and heartbreak and today the trio are inseparable.
The initial sponsorship was to provide for food and shelter for the three rhinos, over the years the three have blossomed into healthy young rhinos and have been released into the sanctuaries reserve., the funding now goes towards supporting the sanctuaries other community programmes such as educating the local community in conservation and environment protection, ranger training and job sustainability.
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