The international trade in elephants rhinos and other species is the.

Rhino elephant. Rhinoceros or Rhino and elephants are incredibly powerful herbivores who would not probably fight each other randomly. Saving wild lives today and securing habitats for the future. Rhinos and elephants beloved throughout the world face severe threats from poaching along with habitat loss and fragmentation.

Elephant are much bigger and heavier. Elephant Orphanage Nairobi Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. It branched out in the late 1970s into wildlife conservation and within ten years became a 10000 acre conservancy with impala waterbuck kudu eland and the rare sable antelope.

More than a thousand rhinos and tens of thousands of elephants are killed each year to feed demand for ivory and rhino horn. Pioneers in the rescue and hand-raising of orphaned baby elephants and rhinos through to their reintegration to the wild when grown. The African bush elephant is the most abundant species found in sub-Saharan Africa.

The protection of rhinos also helps protect the ecosystems on which they depend as well as other species including elephants buffalo large carnivores and antelopes that share their habitat. Elephant tusks and rhino horns are highly valued in the wildlife trade. Highlights of our programme included seeing the elephants bathing and playing in the dam together with a very early canoe trip on the lake to experience all the amazing birdlife.

Rhinoceroses are mighty herbivorous mammals identified by their characteristic horned. Rhinos contribute to economic growth and sustainable development through tourism which creates job opportunities and provides tangible benefits to local communities living alongside rhinos. The ears of African elephants are large while the Asian elephants have small rounded ears.

And is now proud to have four of Africas big 5 living there. Although outnumbered by the elephants the mother. Rhinos are known to easily dispatch of hippos lions and hyenas in the wild but an elephant is a totally different matter.