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Rhino Conservation
Weeks 2025

Experience the rare opportunity to participate in a rhino notching at Sango Wildlife Conservancy. Witness the darting of a rhino and assist the veterinary team in tagging the sleeping rhino’s ear for research and security monitoring, before releasing it back into the wild.

RHINO CONSERVATION WEEKS Package

In August 2025 we will be tagging 15 young rhinos and you can help us achieving our goal.

  • You will be helping our team of experts to tag our 2 year old rhinos.
  • After a short briefing, you will be given your task and off you go!
  • Protect the rhino’s eyes with a cover during tagging
  • Spray the rhino with cold water to control its body temperature
  • Check breathing and vital signs
  • Mark the rhino with watercolour so that it can be seen from the air as having been treated

Available Dates:
18.-28. August 2025

Available Camps:
Sango Dadiso Camp 
Sango Expedition Camp

Regular rates and Sango Specials apply plus a donation of US$ 1,800 per participant.
The RHINO CONSERVATION PACKAGE can be combined with all other Sango activities.

Don't miss Your chance to touch a wild rhino.

Sango is committed to ensuring the survival of Africa’s rhinos by implementing best practice research and management methods. Ear tags allow researchers to correctly identify different individuals on Sango. Each rhino is given a unique ear tag number, which helps to identify the rhino once it has been tagged.

In some cases, microchips are implanted in the horn and body by veterinarians for identification and security purposes. Measurements, horn shavings and skin samples are also taken for DNA analysis.

The procedure looks breathtaking and cruel to the animals, but in reality it only takes 15 minutes per rhino. Ear notching has a huge impact on monitoring and identifying the population living in Sango makes a huge difference. Once tagged, the rhino can be observed with binoculars from a safe distance without disturbing them in their habitat. Together with our partner, the Safe the African Rhino Foundation, we are offering this special event to the public for the first time in 2024.

This is your chance to get involved in real conservation work and combine this special once-in-a-lifetime event with your private safari in Sango.

We are inviting groups of up to 8 guests each to participate in this extraordinary experience. You will play an active role in conservation!

 

Here we are

Stretching from the Bikita Hills in the west and crossing nine major habitat zones to the Save River in the east, Sango provides guests with 60,000 hectares (600 km2) of untamed Africa in the heart of Savé Valley Conservancy.

Directions to Sango

Location
Stretching from the Bikita Hills in the west crossing nine major habitat zones to the Savé River in the east, Sango Private Game Reserve is situated in the Savé Valley Conservancy in south-eastern Zimbabwe.

By Air to Sango Airstrip
Fly with a commercial airline to Harare Airport, Zimbabwe, clear immigration and customs and charter a private flight to Sango Airstrip. Approximate journey time from Harare to Sango is 1 hour.

By Road
Fly with a commercial airline to Harare Airport, Zimbabwe, clear immigration and customs and be collected by our airport transfer for the journey by road to Sango. Approximate journey time from Harare to Sango is 4 – 5 hours.

Air and/or road transfers as well as hotel accommodation before and/or after your stay at Sango can be arranged by our staff upon request.