The Port Lympne Rhino Herd (Diceros bicornis michaeli)
Port Lympne Reserve is home to 12 magnificent black rhinos. The 9 females and 3 males can be seen roaming their spacious paddocks scattered throughout the 600 acre reserve. We are also home to 2 White rhinos, and our new addition as of summer 2022, Orys, the Indian Rhino.
Your Adoption Really Helps
By adopting an Aspinall animal, you are helping to support our amazing overseas work and back to the wild campaigns.
What's included in your adoption?
Digital pack £25
Digital adoption pack including photocard and fact sheet about your chosen animal written by the expert team at The Aspinall Foundation.
Certificate of adoption
Adoption pack will be sent straight to your inbox
Printed pack £35
18cm cuddly toy
Adoption folder including photocard and fact sheet about your chosen animal written by the expert team at The Aspinall Foundation.
Certificate of adoption
Please allow up to 14 days for delivery
Please note: Automatic name generation is currently unavailable for Digital adoptions certificates. These will be left blank for the purchaser or recipient to enter. For Printed Adoptions please providethe recipients name and it will be manually entered when you order is processed.
Fun Facts about rhinos
Black rhinos have been known to charge at trains passing through their territory.
Diet & habits
Black rhinos are browsers that like to eat bushes and trees, they pluck leaves and fruit from branches using their pointed upper lip.
Black rhinos are solitary creatures, unless it is a female and her calf. A female only reproduces every two and a half to five years and the calf will stay with its mother until it is about 3years old. When not rolling in the mud to coat their skin with bug repellent they will take cover in the shade from the hot African sun and feed at night.
Where can they be found in the wild?
On the verge of extinction due to poaching, the black rhino once roamed most of the sub-Saharan Africa.
Threats to black rhinos
Rhino horn is revered for medicinal uses in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It is also used to make ornamental dagger handles in North Africa and the Middle East. Many rhinos have been killed for their horns and are on the verge of extinction due to this.
How we're helping
The Aspinall Foundation are the top breeders of eastern black rhino in the UK and have sent 8 black rhinos back to protected areas of their ancestral homeland. 3 went to South Africa and 5 went to Tanzania. We have seen 25 births to released black rhino with a total of over 60 descendants.
