Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make estimate of the number of rhinos in sub-Saharan Africa.

The UK Government does not undertake its own assessments of rhinoceros populations. The African Rhino Specialist Group, part of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission, collects rhinoceros population statistics and analyses trends. Recent population estimates were submitted to the 19th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) which took place in November 2022.