NEWS & EVENTS
RHINO IN POP CULTURE #8 SKIN OR SKILL?
LOADING… CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER SELECT YOUR SKIN READY? GAME ON!!! Hey folks, what are you up to during the 5-day holiday? It may come as no surprise for gamers to spend time playing video games with their beloved laptop for entertainment or amelioration of skills and...
POP CULTURE X STAR WARS DAY: MAY THE HORN BE WITH RHINO
Dear our bravest Rhino Heroes, Today is Star Wars Day, where Star Wars fans and Sci-fi aficionados come together to celebrate Star Wars. This well-known franchise has always bitten into pop culture! It is explicitly perceptible that Star Wars reverberates around the...
RHINO IN POP CULTURE: TIMELESS BEAUTY
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” Pablo Picasso - It is of note to state that Art plays an integral role in human society by introducing the elevation of various senses as well as disseminating well throughout out messages to the...
FORMER KRUGER NATIONAL PARK FIELD RANGER SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS FOR RHINO KILLING
In the news: A former field ranger, tasked with protecting wildlife in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, has been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for killing a rhino in 2020 and was sentenced at the Skukuza Regional Court. Eckson Musa Matumbu was sentenced at...
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BIODIVERSITY DAY!!!
Greetings, Vietnam’s brave Rhino Heroes! After a great holiday celebrating Hung Kings’ Festival, Victory Day (30/4), and International Workers’ Day (1/5), it’s time for Vietnamese people to get back to schools, and workplaces. Guess what! There is another upcoming day...
Wild Rhino is proud to introduce Shire Oak International as the first business to become a Rhino Hero
On the 21st of May 2021 Shire Oak International signed an official Memorandum of Understanding with the Wild Rhino Campaign and pledged their support for the cause. The occasion also included a virtual seminar / webinar presented by the Wild Rhino Team from South...
Wild Rhino weathering the pandemic
The Wild Rhino Demand Reduction Campaign has been active in Vietnam since 2014. The main aim of the campaign is education and awareness of the rhino poaching crisis in Vietnam through appearances and talks at various events at schools, business chamber events and...
WILDERNESS AWAKENS RHINO AMBASSADORS
Every two years students from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in Vietnam travel to South Africa to embark on, what they call, a life-changing experience. Aged between 14 and 17, most of these children live in cities that are completely disconnected from the...
Wild Rhino Youth Ambassador, Haryoung Cho, was recently invited to take part in a TEDx @ Hanoi event
The demand for rhino horn in Asian countries remains one of the main driving forces behind the escalation in poaching of rhino in Southern Africa with more than 80% of illegally trafficked rhino horn passing through Vietnam either for local use or for...
VIETNAMESE YOUTH COMPETITION WINNERS TO HELP RHINO
“I have always loved the beauty of wildlife. The complexity of the ecosystem, the biological difference in different species, and how every living organism is interconnected; independent yet dependent on others at the same time. South Africa, one of the...
Wild Rhino Competition 2019 Winners Announced
Wild Rhino would like to thank the youth of Vietnam for their innovative ideas and congratulate the 29 Juniors and 14 Seniors that made it through in the competition!! Junior winners will receive a special Wild Rhino hamper and Seniors win a wilderness...
World Rhino Day Celebrated In Vietnam
Wilderness Foundation Africa hosted an event at the Asian International School in Ho Chi Minh city on 19 September week to commemorate World Rhino Day 2018. A group consisting of 300 school children, dignitaries and partners of the Wild Rhino | Vietnam, be...
Rhino Ranger returns to stop the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam
Vietnam is the world's largest recipient of illegal rhino horn from South Africa. To reduce rhino horn consumption and therefore demand, Wilderness Foundation Africa is working with school-going Vietnamese youngsters to create a generation of ambassadors who will grow...
SPARK Talk
The Wilderness Foundation Africa Wild Rhino team was recently approached to participate in a series of Spark Talks focused on conservation, hosted by Leadership for Conservation in Africa (LCA). The seminar was produced by Homebrew Films at Atlantic Studios in Cape...
Vietnamese youth appeal to their peers to stop using rhino horn
Vietnamese youth from Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) are appealing to their friends, family and peers to stop using rhino horn. In July 2017, the lives of 11 students from various international schools in HCMC were forever altered by their experiences during a...
Discover Wild Rhino
Demand reduction is vital to the survival of rhino in the wild. Wildlife crime is decimating many of Africa’s iconic species. Rhinos have suffered the most severe effects of this illegal trade. Fuelled by the demand for...
Business Seminar Shows Conservation Business Can Work Together Create Legacy
South African based conservation organization Wilderness Foundation Africa, in partnership with Vietnam based SOUL Music & Performing Arts Academy, recently hosted a Seminar entitled “Conservation and Business: Creating a Legacy” in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The...
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DOANH NGHIỆP VÀ TRÁCH NHIỆM BẢO TỒN DI SẢN THIÊN NHIÊN CONSERVATION AND BUSINESS: CREATING A LEGACY Buổi Hội thảo giới thiệu các khái niệm và sự liên kết giữa Bảo Tồn, Môi Trường và Doanh Nghiệp trong việc tạo dựng và gìn giữ Di Sản Thiên Nhiên. This seminar...
Nature has been given to us for free
"Nature has been given to us for free. It is precious and it is our responsibility and duty to care for it. Everything in the wilderness is interconnected and it forms our ecosystem. If we lose the rhinos now, tomorrow it will be the elephants, and the next day, the...
Youth Ambassadors Speak For Rhino In HCMC
On September 21, 2017, the Wilderness Foundation Africa team in Vietnam, along with 8 of the Wild Rhino Youth Ambassadors and various local NGOs came together to raise awareness of World Rhino Day, with support from the American Center of the U.S Consulate Ho Chi Minh...
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About Wild Rhino
The Wild Rhino campaign uses multimedia marketing channels, competitions and first hand African wildlife experiences, to teach the youth of Vietnam about rhino protection, and to motivate them to become ambassadors for the cause.