Blythe Loutit

Blythe Loutit née Pascoe (14 November 1940, in Natal, South Africa – 15 June 2005, in Namibia) was a founder member of the Save the Rhino Trust (SRT), an artist and a respected conservationist.

Outraged by the slaughter of rhinoceros and elephants in the area at the hands of the South African Defence Force soldiers and poachers in the 1980s, Blythe Loutit and Ina Britz formed the Namibia Wildlife Trust, followed a few years later by the Save the Rhino Trust, aimed at conserving the rhinos and elephants in the savanna.

Blythe enlisted the help of tribal chiefs, news media, miners, geologists and even soldiers, and appointed rehabilitated poachers as game guards.

The problems Blythe Loutit faced were similar to those experienced in the 1950s by Ian Player in trying to save the white rhino.

Save the Rhino Trust was founded to try to halt the destruction of the desert-dwelling black rhinoceros in the Kunene Region (Damaraland and Kaokoland).