Greg just returned from the Zimababwe Botswana Game Tracker ZBa16 and had a great time in Khama Rhino Sanctuary with sightings of White Rhino and great general game. He had the following to say about Khama. On our Zimbabwe Botswana tours as well as our Botswana tours, one night takes us for a stopover at the Khama Rhino Sanctuary, situated near the small village of Serowe in Botswana, which is the home of the current president Ian Khama and the first president, his father Sir Seretse Khama. This sanctuary is a community based wildlife project, established in 1992 to assist in saving the vanishing rhino population, as well as to re-habilitate an area that was formally teaming with wildlife.

The area of the sanctuary is about thirty eight square kilometres and is home to about 35 white rhino and about 6 of the more endangered black rhino. Other animal species include giraffe, eland, zebra, wildebeest, red hartebeest, impala, springbok, spotted hyena and leopard, which is quite hard to spot, but not impossible!!!! This area is a prime habitat for both the white and black rhinos withbothopen grasslands as well as thicket vegetation. bothopen grasslands as well as thicket vegetation.

White Rhino.

In our current situation we have with rhinos at a massive risk of being poached for their horns (which by the way is just made of keratin, like our finger nails) this is really the only way in my opinion to keep our rhinos alive. The sanctuary is quite small so this allows the Botswana Defence Force to constantly monitor the rhinos. The sanctuary also re-locates rhino to other parts of Botswana once a safe area has been established. This is the modern day solution to try and curb the increasing rhino poaching that is taking place in Southern Africa, and the results are proving positive for the rhinos.

Black Rhino.

Unfortunately this is not ideal to keep rhino in this small area but it’s really the best solution to the problem. When visiting, you do not at all feel like it’s such a small area, and the positive aspect is that you are almost guaranteed to see a few rhinos as well as plenty of other game species......and you may even catch a spectacular Botswana sunset while you’re at it. With the population of rhinos in the world decreasing at a rapid rate, this is Botswana’s positive solution to the problem, and it can only benefit the population in the future. So make your mark and go and visit the Khama rhino sanctuary....you’ll truly be contributing to a precious species of animals, so that future generations can be privileged enough to view these special beasts....it will be well worth it!!!!