Lente Roode on the release of Gertjie and Matimba
It’s been a month now since Gertjie and Matimba have been back in the wild and from the reports we are receiving the two have adapted very well to their…
Moose and Mickey, the Two White-Tailed Mongooses are released back into the wild
In January of this year, we reported that two White-Tailed Mongooses had been brought into our care at HESC. We named them Mickey and Moose. They were two separate cases…
Gertjie and Matimba's Five Year Journey from Victims to Victors
Gertjie and Matimba's extraordinary journeys both started with absolute heartache and sadness, but five-years later continue with hope, pride, love and best of all, freedom. Their stories caught the world’s…
HESC rehabilitates and releases a Southern Ground Hornbill
The team at HESC are delighted to announce a brief and successful rehabilitation and release of a Southern Ground Hornbill back into the wild. Emaciated and very weak when he came…
The Kindness of Individuals in the Rhino Crisis
Last month, we at HESC spent a day with Investec and British actor, Nicholas Pinnock, and American actress, Shannon Elizabeth dehorning rhinos, in a campaign to expose international audiences to…
DO YOU KNOW YOUR RHINO?
Do you know everything there is to know about rhinos? Perhaps… perhaps not. These facts below are great not only to drop into the middle of a conversation on your…
Update on Miss Piggy, our Bushpig patient
Towards the end of July 2018, a little bushpig, not much older than three months old, was brought into our care at the HESC Animal Hospital. She was badly hurt,…
Moose and Mickey, Two White-Tailed Mongooses in our care at HESC.
We have two new friends at HESC, Moose and Mickey, two White-Tailed Mongooses that were brought into our care within a month of each other. Moose, (a female), was the…
Rehabilitated rhino poaching survivors, Lion's Den and Dingle Dell, are released back into the wild.
Five years after two rhinos survived a vicious poaching attack that left them severely injured and a bull dead, they have been returned to the wild. Fully rehabilitated, but dehorned…
Update on the Baby Bushbuck "Bossie" – November 2018
Six weeks ago, we shared the news of a baby bushbuck that had been brought in our care at HESC. He arrived at HESC on the 28th September 2018. We are happy…