Khama Rhino Sanctuary

The Khama Rhino Sanctuary is a community-based wildlife project established in 1992 to assist in saving the vanishing rhino. Other objectives of the sanctuary include restoring an area formerly teeming with wildlife to its previous natural state, and provide economic benefits to the local Batswana community through tourism and the sustainable use of natural resources.

As well as numerous White Rhino, the Sanctuary is also home to other wildlife which have settled naturally or been translocated in. These include zebra, blue wildebeest, giraffe, eland, springbok, impala, gemsbok, kudu, steenbok, duiker, red hartebeest, leopard, ostrich, African wild cat, caracal, small spotted genet, black-backed jackal, bat-eared fox, and brown hyena.
The Khama Rhino Sanctuary in Botswana stretches over four thousand and three hundred hectares of land and is centered around the Serwe Pan, which is actually a large depression encapsulated by grass and many water holes. The Khama Rhino Sanctuary at Botswana offers the optimum conditions for the survival of white rhinoceroses, with the dense regions of the sanctuary being favored by animals like the giraffe. There are a total of fourteen white rhinos that have been translocated to the sanctuary thus gearing the total numbers of rhinos to eighteen.  The most crucial conservation project undertaken by Khama Rhino Sanctuary is of course the rhino breeding programme, an animal once on the brink of extinction. The contribution made by Khama Rhino to protect and recover the rhino population in Botswana and Southern Africa is very significant. To date the Sanctuary has relocated 16 rhinos to different places within the country from a founder population of four animals. The long term goal of the Sanctuary is to let the rhinos safely breed within its borders and re-introduce them into their natural wild habitats. The security of these creatures within the Sanctuary is well guaranteed by the anti-poaching patrols carried out by our rangers and the Botswana Defense Force.