Grant Fowlds on Rhinos, Rewilding Africa, and the Front Lines of the Poaching Wars

Over the past four decades, Grant has dedicated his life to the conservation of Africa’s wildlife and fighting on behalf of endangered species. His work is legendary in the conservation world. He is an international advocate for wildlife preservation and especially against poaching and the illegal animal trade. His two books, Saving the Last Rhinos and Rewilding Africa, have brought the harsh realities of the front lines in the anti-poaching wars to our doorsteps across the world.  As he will elaborate on in the episode, this is a human created, human solved issue. And my word, hopefully Grant will inspire each of us to be a part of the solution.

More about Grant:

• His Books
  • Saving the Last Rhinos 
  • Rewilding Africa
• His Partner Organizations
  • Project Rhino
    • The Project Rhino platform ensures that efforts to protect white and black rhino populations are coherent and avoids duplication of work. It collaborates with anti-poaching and wildlife economy initiatives throughout southern Africa to share strategies and best practices.
  • Rewilding Africa CIC
    • Rewilding Africa is all about investing in Africa’s wilderness communities. Rewilding Africa CIC identifies key and critical landscape rewilding projects around Africa which require impact funds, help plan and implement a rewilding land development and operating plan, and ultimately ensures a vibrant and sustainable community based conservation economy is developed on and around the rewilded landscape and in order to ensure its sustainability for future generations to come.
• To connect with Grant:
  • Follow Grant on Instagram

More about Project Rhino:

Airwing -From February 2022, when our new pilot started, until the end of June 2022 a total of 287 hours were flown of which 239 was for patrol and reaction. 12 Poached rhino were found by our airwing, 2 wounded rhinos were detected and successfully treated and 4 calves from poached adult females were located and successfully moved to a rhino orphanage to ensure their survival.

Project Rhino K9 From December 2021 - June 2022, our K9 team removed 294 snares from our game reserves, responded to 65 emergency call outs, made 21 apprehensions of criminals, retrieved 2 illegal firearms, recovered stolen goods from 7 incidences, recovered 5 high jacked vehicles, responded to 10 armed robbery / burglary cases, dealt with 1 abduction case and successfully found the missing person, retrieved narcotics from 3 separate incidences where arrests were made (+/- 6kgs narcotics, 2x truck loads of counterfeit goods worth R15 million rand). The teams also conduct daily patrols, assist at roadblocks and help recover missing wildlife.

We are also delighted to share that the Project Rhino K9-Unit has been recognised with
The winners of the second International Ranger Awards, presented by the IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).