The first desert black rhino calf to be born after Nicky Oppenheimer became involved with Tswalu arrived in the morning of December 25 1999, Christmas Day itself, just moments before the new millennium.
April 2010 - 10 years exactly since Kalahari Lion came home to Tswalu
At Tswalu, we don’t believe in giving animals names, so unromantically she became Desert Black Rhino Female Number 4. Remarkably, ten years later, she has just had her second calf, only two years after she delivered her first. Those two years, which experts call the “inter-calving period”, may well represent the shortest such period on record. Living proof, literally, of the health of this animal and the land that sustains her.
Our conservation work will never cease but to salute her achievement and others’, on December 25 2009 Tswalu Kalahari will begin a special Year of Celebration with new guest activities, new celebration rates and special offers and new conservation targets.
