Prea Africa Safari Adventures

24/10/2026

24/10/2026

24/10/2026

Meet Cecilia - a southern white rhino calf, one of 12 white rhinos now living on Loisaba.

A white rhino calf is a long time in the making. Her mother carried her for around 16 months, and she weighed between 40 and 65 kg at birth. She will suckle for more than a year and stay at her mother’s side until the next calf arrives, usually two to three years later.

Despite the name, white rhinos are not white. Their defining feature is a broad, square lip built for cropping grass. White rhinos graze; black rhinos browse on shrubs and trees. On Loisaba, the two species share the landscape without competing for food.

White rhinos are the most numerous of the five rhino species and are listed as Near Threatened, not Endangered. That position is fragile. The latest estimate puts the global population at 15,752, down almost 10% in a year, driven largely by poaching in South Africa.

Southern white rhinos are not native to Kenya. Most of the world’s population lives in South Africa, and that concentration is a risk in itself: when poaching rises there, the whole species feels it. Every secure population elsewhere, including Cecilia’s, spreads that risk and adds to the continental total.

Keeping her safe takes daily monitoring by our rangers. Support Loisaba’s rhino protection through the link in our bio.

Photo © Hannah Campbell