Tag Archives: Rhino Art
Gauteng schools join the Rhino Art Project for World Rhino Day 2017
During the week of the 21st September 2017, we celebrated World Rhino Day with the “Rhino Art – Let the children’s voices be heard” project. This project aims to bring awareness to young kids about the plight of rhinos, and create a positive connection to these endangered species through art. These artworks will be showcased to the world in airports, to politicians and to conservation bodies. During the course of…
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Rhino Art @ HESC invites schools to celebrate World Rhino Day on 22 September 2017
World Rhino Day is being celebrated on 22 September this year and the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) is reaching out through its Rhino Art @ HESC project to schools to participate in creating an awareness about the plight of this endangered species in South Africa. Poaching statistics released by the Department for Environmental Affairs in February 2017 show that 1054 rhinos were killed in South Africa alone during 2016, a…
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WCE visits H.H. Thiele Primary School for the Rhino Art project
On World Rhino Day (22 September), our WCE coordinators and participants visited is H.H. Thiele Primary School as part of the Rhino Art project, as well as to donate some goodies. Everyone fell in love with this little school the moment they arrived. The school only has two teachers – one of whom is the headmistress. There are two classrooms, one for the grade 1- 4 learners, and the other…
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A tour with a twist; from Conservation to Rhino Art
Last month, our friends at Highline Tours brought a group of youngsters, together with their parents, for an educational tour at the centre. However, this was not a regular tour as the young boys and girls got to participate in the Rhino Art initiative too. The day began with the usual DVD viewing introducing them to HESC, followed by a tour of the centre, where they learned about and got to…
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HESC and ‘Rhino Art’ partners visit 4 schools
Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC), Project Rhino KZN and Panarottis I’langa Mall partnered together and visited Lumukisa Primary School, Skukuza Primary School, Curro Nelspruit College and St. Peters Primary School as part of the Rhino Art project. The Rhino Art project aims to gather the largest number of children’s ‘Art Voices’ ever recorded against the plight faced by the endangered rhino species. Communities living in and around game farms and reserves…
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