Kenya Reaches Rhino Milestone — No Poaching in 2020

With improvements made to rhino monitoring, tighter security operations, as well as closer relationships with local communities and stronger collaborations with law enforcement agencies, Kenya Wildlife Service and the Elewana Collection are pleased to confirm that there were no rhino poaching incidents in the whole country in 2020.

The zero-poaching record for rhinos was a first for the country in the last 20 years.

Meanwhile, Lewa Conservancy announced a record rhino birth rate for the first quarter of 2021 — nine rhino births — bringing the conservancy’s total population to 118 black rhinos and 108 white rhinos.

Home of Elewana Lewa Safari Camp, the conservancy’s population increase helped Kenya reach its annual target number for the black rhino population for the first time. There are now 853 black and white rhinos thriving in Kenya’s conservancies and national parks.