Aspinall Celebrate One Year Since Rhinos Release

The Aspinall Foundation have been celebrating the one year anniversary of the return of three black rhinos back into the wilds of Africa. Visitors to both Aspinall parks in Kent and Canterbury have been joining the Education Teams over the weekend of 15th and 16th June 2013 to take part in some rhino flavoured fun and games.

Just before the black rhinos left last year to be rehoused in Africa, they had a very special visitor to bid them a fond farewell. Non other than his Royal Highness Prince William took time out of his busy schedule to visit the Port Lympne Park to wish them a safe journey back to their original homeland. The parks between them are home to the largest herd of black rhinos in Europe, and hopefully more will be returned to Africa in the foreseeable future.

Animal Director for Port Lympne, Adrian Harland, said –

The three black rhino – Grumeti, Monduli and Zawadi are doing really well back in Africa.  It didn’t take them long to get used to life in the wild and they enjoy regular dust baths, browse from the trees and just being where they should be.

Visitors to the Aspinall Foundation parks were invited to celebrate by taking part in a rhino horn hoopla competition, with players scores being added to a leader board. The day’s winner was then invited to enjoy an amazing rhino encounter later in the day as a super prize.

Education Supervisor, Mark Kingston Jones, said –

This is a really important anniversary for us and so to celebrate we will be holding fun competitions to win a rhino encounter, lively rhino talks and feeds and visitors can even make their own rhino horn masks to wear around the park.

If you would like to assist the Aspinall Foundation’s fight to help the plight of these beautiful animals, why not adopt a black rhino through our dedicated charity page? Your small monthly donation will go a long way to helping this endangered animals fight for survival.