Our Supported Charity: Save The Rhino

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SATOA's chosen charity for 2011/12 is Save The Rhino.

SATOA's charity of choice is elected from nominations sent in by members.  The charity is required to be small and personal, involved in the community, conservation or both.   SATOA will hold specific sponsorship opportunities at each event for the appointed charity.  All proceeds
raised are then given to the chosen charity.

A bit more about our charity...

Save the Rhino International works to conserve viable populations of critically endangered rhinos in Africa and Asia. We recognise that the future of wildlife is inextricably linked to the communities that share its habitat. By funding field projects and through education, our goal is to deliver material, long-lasting and widespread benefits to rhinos and other endangered species, ecosystems and to the people living in these areas.

Aims

• To increase the number of rhinos in genetically viable populations in the wild
• To enhance the integrity of ecosystems
• To ensure that local communities benefit from conservation activities

Primary objectives

• To provide financial support for in situ projects focused on all five of the rhinoceros species
• To encourage and enable the sharing of information, experience and skills between rhino programmes, ex situ and conservation organisations
  
• To measure and improve the effectiveness of our grant-making and charitable activities
• To raise awareness of the need for rhino conservation and communicate the work of Save the Rhino
  

Our grant-making activities

The funds we raise are used to support projects that address rhino conservation through a number of measures:

• Community conservation programmes that develop sustainable methods by which local communities can creatively manage natural resources
• Environmental education programmes that teach children and adults about the importance of preserving natural resources and address human-wildlife conflict issues
• Anti-poaching and monitoring patrols, which detect and deter poachers and gather information about rhino ranges and numbers
• Translocations, so that rhinos from established populations can be reintroduced to former habitats
• Research into the threats to rhino survival and alternatives to the use of rhino horn
• Veterinary work, such as the implanting of transmitters into horns, or removal of snares

Our approach

• We employ a pragmatic approach focused on viable populations, and are not sentiment-driven
• We support the sustainable use of natural resources for the mutual benefit of wildlife, habitat and local communities
• We support the sustainable use of wildlife (i.e. culling, cropping and hunting) provided it is legal and the profits are ploughed back into conservation
  
• We do not create or run our own projects in the field; rather, we find rhino conservation projects that we think are doing a good job, and then fund them
• We prefer to work with projects on a long-term basis, rather than making one-off or ad hoc grants
• We believe in the value of partnership working with other in situ and ex situ NGOs and conservation organisations

Contact Details:

Save the Rhino International
16 Winchester Walk
London SE1 9AQ
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)20 7357 7474
Fax: +44 (0)20 7357 9666
Website: http://www.savetherhino.org/