Prince Harry & Wilderness Safaris Join Forces To Project Botswana Rhinos

Indeed our country has been child of Britain since we have been colonized by them in 1966. The Wilderness Safaris conservation team was honored to host Prince Harry in Botswana recently as part of a three-month trip to southern Africa to take part in various front-line conservation activities, including the company’s pioneering Botswana Rhino Project.

During his time in Botswana, Prince Harry joined, Wilderness Safaris Botswana Environmental Manager and Botswana’s National Rhino Coordinator, Map Ives, and Wilderness Safaris Conservation Manager, Kai Collins, to actively participate in the Rhino Conservation Botswana program. The team spent a few days tracking rhino to ensure that they were safe and in good condition, and fit state-of-the-art tracking devices on several rhino to ensure intensive monitoring and security measures can be carried out.

The Botswana Rhino Project, operating as part of the independent trust Rhino Conservation Botswana, was initiated by Wilderness Safaris in 1999 in close collaboration with the Government of Botswana. Since the project’s first reintroductions of both white and black rhino into the Okavango Delta in October 2001 and November 2003 respectively, populations of both species have grown and the country has proven its credentials in being able to provide a safe range for these charismatic and dramatically threatened species.