The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) is celebrating the birth of a black rhino through a conservation project in Botswana, after both his parents where translocated to this protected area with funds from SGP projects.
The black rhino is listed as critically endangered on IUCN's Red List.
1 February 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) is celebrating the birth of a black rhino in the Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Botswana, after both his parents were translocated to this area with funds from SGP projects.
This birth brings the Sanctuary’s black rhino population to four, which is 50% of all black rhinos in Botswana. The black rhino is listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, with a population decline of over 90% in the last 60 years.
The GEF SGP had previously funded a Sanctuary initiative on the white rhino, which has translocated 16 white rhinos to protected areas within Botswana and is currently home to 33 white rhinos, the highest of any protected area in Botswana. [GEF Press Release]