23 Sep 10

CSI – Cape Town ‘Rhino Patrol’ Hits the Streets for Public Awareness

Check out African Renaissance’s CSI-style guerrilla awareness campaign to inform the public about how many rhinos have been murdered in 2010.

In a unique public awareness event held on World Rhino Day, conservationists from African Renaissance donned white overalls and hit the streets of Cape Town, South Africa.

Armed with stencils, chalk, latex gloves and hazard tape, the team set up “crime scenes” all over the city, from the Sea Point Promenade to Parliament, schools, museums, tourist attractions, local news stations and everywhere else in between.

The group cruised around the Mother City installing these “rhinocide” crime scenes wherever possible.

Reactions from the public were incredibly supportive, with people from all over coming up to us with words of encouragement.

And if you’re around the City Bowl in the next few days, you might be able to spot the rhino crime scenes displayed by African Renaissance.

Photo courtesy of Samantha Loring

Rhishja Cota-Larson

I am the founder of Saving Rhinos LLC, which publishes news and information about the global rhino crisis. Besides writing Rhino Horn is Not Medicine, I am the author of the book Murder, Myths & Medicine, the Editor of Project Pangolin, and a writer for the environmental news blog Planetsave. When I'm not blogging about the illegal wildlife trade, I like to rock out to live music.

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