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  The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy works as a catalyst for the conservation of wildlife and its habitat.
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Rhinocerous conservation at Lewa, Kenya.

Ear notching our Rhino

Ear notching Lewa's rhinocerous.Lewa prides itself on being able to locate each rhino more than once a week. To maintain this high standard we have implemented a way of marking the rhinos in a relatively natural way by cutting notches into their ears.

The white rhino mother and calf groups are known and easy to identify. However, once the calves leave their mothers and start to mix with different rhino groups, identification becomes much harder. Therefore, we have only notched the ears of sub adult and male white rhino.

Unlike black rhino, which live in thick bush and therefore acquire many cuts and tears in their ears, the white rhino prefers open plains and although they do acquire nicks in their ears, this usually happens slowly with age.

To ear-notch a rhino firstly it has to be immobilised and then a notch is cut out of the ear. Antibiotics are applied afterwards and then the animal is revived. This is a quick and relatively painless process. To date we have notched 24 of our rhino.

Lewa's Black rhino

See the notched black rhinos on Lewa, and their names, gender and other information here.

Lewa's White rhino

See the notched white rhinos on Lewa, and their names, gender and other information here.
More rhinocerous information.
Rhino Conservation
Rhino Conservation Information Black Rhino Facts
Rhino Conservation Information White Rhino Facts
Ear Notching Programme
Lewa Rhino Database - find all the rhinos and their calves here...
Uses of Rhino Horn
Rhinocerous news articles.
Gill Parker of the United Stated being welcomed in as the last runner on the Marathon. Her escort is the group of volunteer bike riders who monitor the course throughout the event. The Marathon breaks Records!
The Safaricom Marathon was run on Lewa on Saturday 23 June. The event broke many records and was a great success....more
Mawingo's 6th calf has been born. Mawingo gives birth to another calf
Mawingo (meaning cloud in Swahili) is a 18 year old black rhino female. She has given birth to a total of six calves in her life at Lewa....more
Mt Kenya seen from Lewa The rains have come back to Lewa
The rains have come back to Lewa...more
Lions on Lewa Toki on TV
The orphaned cheetah Toki that spent most of his childhood on Lewa is still thriving at Ol Pejeta. Stephen, his friend, is still with him. Watch the programme 'Toki's tale" to find out more about this remarkable cheetah....more
Lewa closed due to heavy rains Unseasonal rain
Lewa is experiencing very unseasonal rain (over 22inches since the beginning of November) with no prospect of any improvement....more
Green plains on Lewa Christmas greeting from Ian Craig
13 rhino born within Lewa in 2006; no rhino lost to poaching; 640 elephant counted last week in the previously conflict torn but now protected Sera Community Conservation area; all the birds are nesting, wonderful rain across all of Kenya especially on L...more
Lewa has had fantastic rains..finally! Lewa's floods.
Kenya is experiencing the most extraordinary rain right across the country....more
Good rains on Lewa. Rains on Lewa and baby elephant rescued.
Rains on Lewa and baby elephant rescued....more
Clouds over Lewa Rain and Rhino celebrations!
The short rains started last weekend and yesterday the rangers found two new baby white rhino....more
New baby rhino. Another black rhino birth on Lewa!
On Monday 16 October one of our Rangers, Rajimen Lesakut, reported seeing Ndito, a 16.8 year old black rhino with a new calf....more
Presenter Nick Knowles on location on Lewa. September News
The annual Safaricom Marathon held on Lewa on the 24th of June this year was a huge success!...more
Job had severe injuries in his eyes inflicted in a fight with another male the previous week. JOB, A BLACK RHINO FROM OL PEJETA SPECIAL VISIT TO LEWA
Over the Easter weekend, Lewa received an unusual report from Ol Pejeta that one of the adult male black rhinos in the Conservancy had severe injuries in his eyes inflicted in a fight with another male the previous week....more
Boys from northern Kenya visit London. THE NEXT GENERATION ATHLETES VISIT TO THE UK
The four children who had won the 2005 Lewa Safaricom mini marathon left for London for a five days visit on the 25th April 2006....more
Finally the long awaited rains have arrived on Lewa and the North!
In the last week we have had lost and lots of rain and it looks like it will continue for some time. We all are very relieved about this and we hope that the communities up north will be able to recover quickly from the recent drought. ...more
Lewa Education Trust report February 2006 LEWA EDUCATION TRUST -February Report
February has been a busy month for Lewa Education Trust...more
Grevy's zebra that died of anthrax in the North of Kenya Anthrax update
An outbreak of anthrax 100 km north of Lewa in the Wamba area that began in December 2005 appeared to be disproportionately killing equids and, in particular, Grevy's zebras....more
Dought has broken Drought has broken
Half of Kenya has wonderful rain over the past ten days....more
Goodbye to Stella
On Sunday, 5th February 2006, Lewa woke up to a frenzy of activity as a joint team involving the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Conservancy personnel was mobilised in an operation that was to culminate in translocation of Stella - a male black rhino to Me ...more
Kids at the British High Commission British High Commission - "Next Generation"
At last years Safaricom Marathon the British High Commission kindly donated a prize to the first two boys and girls, in the Fun Run for kids, to travel to London in early 2006....more
Daisy' death Daisy is dead
Unfortunately our hand-reared oryx, Daisy, was killed last night by lions....more
Toki moves to Ol Pejeta Toki is moving to Ol Pejeta
It is a testament to the progressive and far sighted policies of Ol Pejeta that, whilst dealing with enormous challenges on a daily basis, it makes the time, resources and space available to one rather small, big cat....more
Mawingo's fifth calf. Another hand-reared rhino calf on Lewa!
On 10th of October Mawingo, our 15 year old partially blind black rhino mother gave birth again to a baby boy, a mere 18 months after she calved Tula...more
Daisy's calf Daisy, the orphan oryx, has had a baby!
Daisy, the orphan oryx, has had a baby!...more
The international Adult Literacy Day celebration Toki News and Adult literacy education
Toki is doing very well. Since he had problems getting on with the other cheetahs here on Lewa it was decided to move him onto a neighbouring farm close to the Lewa boundary....more
The Embori elephant in the pit Elephant rescue
Yesterday afternoon at 2.30 we received an urgent call from a nearby farm, Embori that borders the Mt. Kenya Forest Reserve, reporting an elephant that had fallen into a pit latrine and was totally stuck....more
Kip in Greece Kip in Athens!
A Masai chief's impressions of Athens...more
New Baby White Rhino to be Hand Reared New Baby White Rhino to be Hand Reared
On the 25th February we were contacted by the manager of Solio Ranch Game Reserve who told us he had a very young baby white rhino with no mother....more
Rain and rhino calves. Rain and rhino calves.
Our rhino population has increased by one more taking the number of black to 40 and with our white population at 36 so we are now 76 in all....more
New rhino poaching incidents strike Laikipia, Kenya. Rhino Poaching and an Eye Clinic
On Sunday 10th October a fresh white rhino carcass, shot just a few hours before, was found by a vehicle on a game drive in the Game Reserve in Laikipa....more
Assorted News from Lewa
A new rhino, animal translocations and marathon updates ...more
Poachers use cable snares to kill rhino. Rhino Poaching OUTSIDE Lewa
Poaching by cable snaring reveals the true horrors of what has been taking place on a nearby Rhino sanctuary that Lewa is assisting....more
Wildlife Reports, June 2004. Wildlife Reports
The last month or so on lewa wildlife conservancy has been one eventful month....more
Latest Community News Community Development
The May month was pretty busy being almost the half way of the year. Most communities were evaluating what they had achieved in the year 2003/2004. There was a Wildlife Policy Development Workshop held in Mombasa that focused on formulation...more
Mawingo's new baby rhino calf. Mawingo’s fourth calf!
Mawingo, the partially blind black rhino female, gave birth to her fourth calf a few weeks back. She was spotted with the calf and did surprise us....more
Lewa assists in catching poachers on neighbouring rhino sanctuary.
Following several cases of rhino poaching on a neighbouring rhino sanctuary in the district in the last two years, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (LWC) was approached to assist the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), in anti-poaching activities on the ranch. ...more
Rhino News and More
New Black Rhino Calf Born We have had our fourth black rhino calf born! The mother (Njota) and baby were spotted for the first time early this morning. We are absolutely delighted (again)!!! ...more
Lord Deedes Visits Lewa on a regular basis nowadays.. Lord Deedes Visits Lewa
As part of the London Daily Telegraph Christmas Appeal Lord Deedes has just finished a 6 day visit to the Conservancy, Il Ngwesi and Namunyak....more
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
The past 6 months have been a bewildering time, where we have seen just how vulnerable this fragile resource of Africa's wildlife really is. ...more

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