For most of a generation the Okavango had no meaningful rhino population. The relocation programme led from Botswana has changed that: animals moved quietly, guarded constantly, and now breeding — a viable population in one of the best-protected wildernesses on earth.
The work is not finished and the people doing it would be the first to say so. Poaching pressure moves like weather, and the monitoring teams fly, track and count without pause. What travellers can do is simple: visit, ask, and let part of your journey fund the flying hours.
On our Desert & Delta journeys we can arrange time with the monitoring teams where operations allow — and one per cent of every Africa Golf Safari journey goes back into conservation and community work on the ground. We'll show you the work, not just the logo.
— Shelagh Harker