Travel with Purpose with Wilderness Safaris – Mega-moves of Megafauna

Wilderness Safaris’ next Travel with Purpose journey is set to take place in Rwanda’s Akagera National Park and will offer guests the exclusive opportunity to witness the Park’s conservation initiatives, which include taking part in the darting process of Rwanda’s newest residents: the Critically Endangered eastern black rhino. This purposeful journey will take place from 24 – 28 October, with all funds raised from the itinerary directly channelled into the Akagera Black Rhino Monitoring Project.

The five-day journey will offer guests a range of private activities: a behind-the-scenes tour and demonstration with the Canine Unit; accompanying a wildlife vet on a rhino darting, transmitter insertion and sample collection; and enjoying morning and evening game drives observing the spectacular wildlife and savannah scenery of Akagera. Joining the guests will be experts Jes Gruner, Akagera National Park Manager, and wildlife veterinarian, Pete Morkel, who is widely considered an expert in capture and translocation of African wildlife, specifically black rhino, giraffe and elephant. They will give evening talks on various points of interest from the overall conservation of Akagera to the darting and monitoring process in which the guests will take part.

The Akagera Black Rhino Monitoring Project started in 2017 after a group of Critically Endangered eastern black rhino were successfully translocated from South Africa to Akagera, through the support of the Howard G. Buffet Foundation, thus expanding the species’ range from nine to ten countries. With fewer than 5 000 black rhino remaining across their range in the wild, of which approximately 1 000 comprise the eastern black rhino subspecies, the reintroduction has reignited hope for African conservation. 

For more details on this Travel with Purpose itinerary, click here.