Rhino Ridge Safari Lodge - The Home of The Rhino

In the heart of Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal province, the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park is the oldest proclaimed game reserve in Africa. The Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park is world-renowned for its white rhino conservation and was instrumental in bringing the white rhino population in Southern Africa back from the brink of extinction. In fact, every single southern white rhino population in the world has its genetic origin in the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park. The reserve is home to the second largest population of White Rhinos in the world and also has a large population of Black Rhino. Within the last few years, the scourge of syndicated rhino poaching (as opposed to sporadic poaching) has become a potential threat to the rhinos throughout Southern Africa. The black rhino is more difficult to hunt than the white, but its scarcity makes the species susceptible to localised extinction because of poaching. Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Wildlife staff work very hard to protect their stocks, but it is not an easy task given the size of the park, the extent of its fence-line and the nature of the terrain. Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park is the flagship park of Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and, through efforts both past and present, it has brought the white rhino population in Southern Africa back from the brink of extinction through the influential project ‘Operation Rhino’. Now, Ezemvelo is trying to do for the black rhino what it did for the white rhino. To achieve this, Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park is playing an important role in the ongoing WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project. Rhino Ridge Safari Lodge is fiercely committed to conservation and making a difference. We are proud to be the ‘home of the rhino’, situated in the reserve where conservation in South Africa was born. As the first luxury safari lodge to be established within this world-renowned Big 5 game reserve, this is our ‘home’ too... as well as home to thriving populations of African wild dogs, lion, elephant, and multitudes of other species.