Bio-diversity

The project is situated in Nakitoma,Nakasongola district in the central part of Uganda and implemented by the Rhino Fund, a non governmental organization responsible for breeding and reintroducing the rhinos. Rhinos are valuable due to popularity of their horns, which are used for making many products such as sword handles, aphrodisiacs which also fetch high prices on the world markets. The demand for these items is higher than the rate at which rhinos can reproduce only reproduce one sole offspring once every two or three years. Their survival therefore depends much on the developmentof management and control systems that guarantee a conducive environment for breeding to ensure their increased populatons and lessen threats such as poaching. The project aims at providing a sanctuary for rhinos where they canbe in their natuarl preferred habitat in the wild in order for them to be able to breed successfully and become part of natural wildlife once more.

Uganda