AutoXpress supports the Rhino Ark Charitable Trust
The Rhino Ark Charitable Trust’s success over the years in the preservation of water towers and wildlife habitats through its various projects has motivated AutoXpress to continuously support these environmental conservation efforts by the Trust.
AutoXpress is cognizant of the great work being undertaken by Rhino Ark through the various projects including the Aberdare fence project, Mt Kenya fence project, Eburu fence project and Kakamega fence project.
It also admires how Rhino Ark has evolved and expanded over the years to include the support of various community-based conservation initiatives that are designed to offer long-term solutions to the conservation of mountain forest ecosystems.
All these conservation efforts by Rhino Ark are evident and a testament that has motivated AutoXpress to contribute an equivalent of KES 7.5 million worth of tyres used by Rhino Ark officials in carrying out their operations for the last six years. Additionally, AutoXpress sponsors the gauntlet during the Rhino charge event as well as all the stickers used on competitors and officials’ cars.
About Rhino Ark Charitable Trust
Rhino Ark was established in 1988 as a charitable trust to help save Kenya’s Black Rhino population in the Aberdare ecosystem which were under severe threat from rampant poaching for their highly valued horn.
Rhino Ark’s formation was specifically to assist the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to build an electric fence along sections of the Aberdare National Park on its Eastern Salient which has the highest concentration of wildlife and borders directly on to farmland.
Over the years, Rhino Ark’s work has evolved and expanded to include support for various community-based conservation initiatives such as the Bongo Surveillance Programme designed to offer long-term solutions to the conservation of mountain forest ecosystems.
In the recent past, Kenya’s prolonged dry spell resulted in severe forest fires – ravaging parts of the Aberdares and Mount Kenya ecosystems. Rhino Ark mobilized two crop dusters and two choppers to combat the fires in the Aberdares. They also organised reconnaissance flights above these fires to assess the location, direction and accessibility to the fire lines.
“If these fires would have been left unattended, they would have spread across the northern and central moorlands, burning an area most likely ten times larger”, commented Christian Lambrechts, Executive Director of Rhino Ark.
