Adopt a rhino. Become part of their journey.
Rhino adoption is one of the most personal ways to support Care for Wild. By adopting a rhino, you create a meaningful connection with an individual rhino’s story while helping support the care, protection and long-term conservation work that gives orphaned and injured rhinos a second chance at life.
From rescue to rehabilitation, and where possible, rewilding and release, every rhino’s journey takes time, patience, specialist care and ongoing support.
Secure adoption options. Quarterly rhino updates. Digital adoption certificate included.
Every rhino has a name. Every name tells a story. Every adoption helps support the journey from loss to life.
A personal way to make a lasting difference
Behind every rescued rhino is a story of trauma, care, trust, healing and hope. Some calves arrive after losing their mothers to poaching. Others are rescued after injury, illness, abandonment or natural loss. Each one needs specialist care, daily commitment and long-term protection.
When you adopt a rhino, you become part of that story.
Your adoption helps provide ongoing support for orphaned and injured rhinos, including daily specialist care and rehabilitation, milk, supplementary feeding, veterinary treatment, monitoring, secure facilities, rewilding and ongoing protection. It also helps Care for Wild continue the wider conservation work that supports rhinos, people, biodiversity and wild spaces in South Africa.
When you adopt a rhino, you become part of their story. Your support helps write the next chapter in their remarkable journey.
How adoption works
Adopting a rhino is simple, meaningful and designed to keep you connected to the impact your support helps make possible.
Choose a Rhino
Meet the rhinos waiting to be adopted and discover the story that captures your heart. Every rhino's story is different. Some are new arrivals, rescued only recently. Others are progressing through rehabilitation and rewilding, while many are now thriving in the wild.
Choose Monthly or Once-Off Support
You can adopt a rhino through monthly support or a once-off adoption contribution. Monthly adoption provides ongoing support and helps Care for Wild plan ahead. Once-off adoption is a meaningful way to support a rhino's journey immediately.
Receive Your Adoption Certificate
Each adopter receives a personalised digital adoption certificate, delivered as a downloadable PDF. This can be created for yourself, your family, your classroom, your company or as a gift for someone special.
Follow Their Journey
Adopters receive quarterly updates about their adopted rhino, sent via their preferred contact method, either WhatsApp or email. Updates may include stories, photographs, milestones and conservation news.
Help Protect Their Future
Your adoption helps support the care and protection of rhinos at Care for Wild, while contributing to the broader conservation work needed to give rhinos a safer future.
Choose the adoption option that feels right for you
Whether you adopt for yourself, your family, your classroom, your company or as a gift, your support becomes part of a rhino’s journey.
Monthly Rhino Adoption
Provide steady, ongoing support for rhino care, rehabilitation and protection. Monthly adoption helps Care for Wild plan ahead and provide consistent support through every stage of a rhino's journey.
Adopt Monthly Choose a RhinoPerfect for those who would like to build a lasting connection with one rhino.
Once-Off Rhino Adoption
Make a once-off adoption contribution and become part of a rhino's story. This is a meaningful way to support an individual rhino while contributing to the broader care and conservation fund.
Adopt Once Off Choose a RhinoA thoughtful way to support a rhino immediately.
Gift Adoption
Give a rhino adoption as a meaningful gift for a birthday, celebration, memorial, school project, family occasion or corporate gesture. The recipient can receive a personalised digital adoption certificate and updates about the adopted rhino.
Give Adoption as a Gift View RhinosA gift with purpose, meaning and lasting conservation impact.
Corporate Rhino Adoption
Adopt a rhino as a company, team, school, foundation or organisation. Corporate adoption can support staff engagement, ESG objectives, conservation education, client gifting or structured giving.
Corporate Rhino Adoption Speak to UsA dedicated route for companies, schools, foundations and organisations.
Meet the rhinos and discover their incredible stories
Every rhino has a name. Every name tells a story. Behind each rescue is a journey from loss to life, marked by trauma, healing, trust, recovery and hope.
Choose a rhino to meet them, discover their story and become part of their journey.
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Rewilding and Release
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Rewilding and Release
New Arrival
Rehabilitation
Rewilding and Release
New Arrival
Rewilding and Release
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Rehabilitation
Rewilding and Release
Rewilding and Release
Rewilding and Release
Rewilding and Release
Rewilding and Release
Rewilding and Release
Rewilding and Release
New Arrival
Rewilding and Release
Adopt a Rhino
Your adoption supports the daily care, food and protection of your rhino.
Where your adoption goes
Your contribution directly funds your rhino's daily care:
- Food, milk formula and supplements
- Veterinary treatment and medicine
- 24/7 anti-poaching protection
- Safe rehabilitation and rewilding
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Your adoption supports real rhino care and protection
Rhino adoption helps fund the daily and long-term work behind every rescue, recovery and return to the wild.
Your support contributes to the broader rhino care and conservation fund, allowing Care for Wild to direct resources where they are needed most.
Milk, Feed and Nutrition
Specialist milk, nutritious feed, supplements and tailored nutrition plans to support rhinos at every stage of their rehabilitation.
Veterinary Care and Medicine
Expert veterinary care, from emergency treatment and advanced diagnostics to specialist wound management, medication, intensive monitoring and long-term rehabilitation
Daily Care and Rehabilitation
Daily rehabilitation and husbandry, including boma care, enrichment, behavioural monitoring, facility management and dedicated, highly trained caregiver support.
Protection and Anti-Poaching
Highly trained ranger teams, K9s, mounted patrols, surveillance technology and around-the-clock protection to keep rhinos safe.
Rewilding and Release
Protected landscapes, healthy habitats, supplemental support, monitoring and long-term protection for rhinos returned to wild spaces.
Community-Centred Conservation
Investing in local communities through jobs, education and conservation programmes that strengthen long-term protection for rhinos.
What it takes to care for a rhino
Rhino care is a long-term commitment. Some rhinos require intensive medical support. Others need specialist feeding, boma care, rehabilitation, protection or monitoring for many months and sometimes years.
These monthly examples show what different stages of rhino care can cost. You do not need to cover a full monthly amount to make a meaningful difference. Every adoption, of every size, contributes to the care and protection of rhinos at Care for Wild.
All adoption contributions support the broader rhino care and conservation fund, helping direct resources to the areas of greatest need.
What adopters receive
Rhino adoption is designed to keep you meaningfully connected to the rhino you choose and the conservation work your support helps make possible.
A note on how adoption support is used
When you adopt a rhino, you create a meaningful connection with that individual rhino's story. Your adoption helps support the care and protection of rhinos at Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary.
To ensure that every rhino receives the support they need, adoption contributions are directed into the broader rhino care and conservation fund. This fund helps cover food, milk, medicine, veterinary care, security, rehabilitation, rewilding and long-term protection.
This means your adoption helps the rhino you choose while also supporting the wider care system that protects all rhinos at Care for Wild.
A note on how adoption support is used
When you adopt a rhino, you create a meaningful connection with that individual rhino's story. Your adoption helps support the care and protection of rhinos at Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary.
To ensure that every rhino receives the support they need, adoption contributions are directed into the broader rhino care and conservation fund. This fund helps cover food, milk, medicine, veterinary care, security, rehabilitation, rewilding and long-term protection.
This means your adoption helps the rhino you choose while also supporting the wider care system that protects all rhinos at Care for Wild.
Give adoption as a gift
A rhino adoption makes a meaningful gift for someone who cares about wildlife, conservation and the future of our natural world.
Whether for a birthday, school project, memorial, corporate gift, family celebration or special occasion, a gift adoption turns generosity into lasting impact.
Gift adopters receive a personalised digital certificate and rhino updates, depending on the adoption option selected.
Adopt a rhino as a company, school or organisation
Corporate and group adoption gives companies, schools, foundations and organisations a meaningful way to support rhino conservation while connecting people to a real conservation story.
Your adoption can support employee engagement, conservation education, ESG objectives, client gifting, classroom learning or structured giving.
Adopt a rhino as a company, school or organisation
Corporate and group adoption gives companies, schools, foundations and organisations a meaningful way to support rhino conservation while connecting people to a real conservation story.
Your adoption can support employee engagement, conservation education, ESG objectives, client gifting, classroom learning or structured giving.
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Rhino Adoption FAQs
What does it mean to adopt a rhino?
Rhino adoption is a symbolic adoption programme that allows you to support Care for Wild while creating a meaningful connection with an individual rhino’s story.
Will I own the rhino I adopt?
No. Rhino adoption is symbolic. The rhino remains in the care and protection of Care for Wild and its conservation programme.
Does my adoption only support the rhino I choose?
Your adoption connects you to the rhino you choose, but adoption contributions support the broader rhino care and conservation fund. This helps ensure that all rhinos receive the care, protection and resources they need.
Can I adopt monthly or once off?
Yes. You can choose monthly adoption or a once-off adoption contribution, depending on how you would like to support.
Can I adopt a rhino as a gift?
Yes. Gift adoption is a meaningful option for birthdays, memorials, celebrations, school projects, corporate gifts or conservation-loving friends and family.
What will I receive after adopting?
Adopters receive a personalised digital adoption certificate and quarterly updates about their adopted rhino via their preferred contact method, either WhatsApp or email.
Can my company or school adopt a rhino?
Yes. Companies, schools, classrooms, foundations and groups can adopt a rhino as part of a conservation education, ESG, staff engagement or giving initiative.
Can I change the rhino I support later?
Please contact the Care for Wild team if you need help with your adoption details or would like to discuss your support.
Become part of a rhino’s story today.
Every rhino at Care for Wild has travelled a journey of loss, care, healing and hope. By adopting a rhino, you help support the work that gives orphaned and injured rhinos a second chance at life and a future in protected wild spaces.
Choose a rhino. Follow their journey. Help protect their future.
Secure adoption options. Digital certificate included. Quarterly rhino updates.
