The Lowveld region in Southeast Zimbabwe is home to over 470 black rhinos, and 300 white rhinos, representing 85% of the Zimbabwean rhino population. Working with the Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority, LRT intensively tracks and monitors rhinos to confirm their ongoing safety and wellbeing. LRT also treats rhinos with snare and bullet wounds, assists whenever possible with investigating and prosecuting poachers, and translocates rhinos from high-risk areas to safer locations when needed.

The ongoing hard work of the LRT Team in monitoring and protecting the rhinos of the Bubye Valley allowed them to supply a founder population to Gonarezhou National Park in 2021, reintroducing rhinos to an area from which they were previously eradicated by poaching.

The southern white rhino is considered Near Threatened under the IUCN Red List, with approximately 18,000 left in the wild. Whereas, the black rhino is considered Critically Endangered under the IUCN Red List, with less than 6,000 left. Poaching to supply the illegal international rhino horn trade continues to be the leading threat to both black and white rhinos. In 2022, 548 rhinos were poached across Africa. That is an average of one rhino poached every 16 hours!

LRT works with over 50 rural primary schools around the Bubye Valley Conservancy, providing teaching materials, such as textbooks, which are then linked to rhino conservation awareness. The supplies provided by LRT are proportional to the rate of annual rhino population growth in the area, providing a major incentive for local communities to help reduce rhino poaching. In areas where state educational support is so limited, the work of LRT has generated considerable community support and attention, from both traditional leaders and local politicians.