Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

The ranch offers a secure place where rhino populations can be expanded by breeding, protected from human and non-human predators and gradually re-introduced into Uganda's national parks, while at the same time, allowing the public to enjoy these majestic animals, as the project moves forward.

[1] A team of approximately 78 park rangers and security guards keep watch on the rhinos 24 hours daily, seven days a week, to ensure their safety.

Tourist facilities at the ranch include luxury accommodation, rest rooms, camp grounds, a restaurant, bar and pool.

However, due to a number of factors, including prolonged armed human conflict, poaching and the mismanagement of their natural habitat, by 1982, both species had been wiped out in the country.

The long-term goal of the ranch is to "build a sustainable rhinoceros population and relocate rhinos back to their original habitat in Uganda's protected areas".

White rhinos in the sanctuary (2022)
Rhinos in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary (2012): Bella and Donna (the calf)
Waterbuck at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary