**Rogue Rhinos** is a 5555 piece generative PFP NFT collection on the Ethereum blockchain. The artwork was done by Venezuelan "Rubber Hose" artist Andy Medina. **We are officially partnered** with the International Rhino Foundation and 10% of our sales will be donated to them. We also allocate 1/3 of our royalties to them as well. This means that every purchase, whether during the initial mint or on the secondary market, will go towards saving the beautiful species that is the rhinoceros. We are also a **comeback** project, created as a result of the Raging Rhinos developers leaving the project and their community behind. Free mints were given to the Raging Rhino holders, and our community is back and in control of our project! Join the Stampede!

**50% of tips go to our adopted Black Rhino in the panel to the right!** ***More payment methods added soon!*** For now, we are accepting ETH tips, please let us know in chat if you've tipped. **Ethereum wallet:** 0x6cBaf1F2b868c37D521b7E95fF8dE29049eb0986

**On October 30th, 2018, rhino monitors in Zimbabwe’s Bubye Valley Conservancy** came across the carcass of a black rhino cow killed by poachers. Her eight-month old calf was next to her body, still trying to nurse. The monitors called in a vet who attempted to ground dart the calf, but he was too nervous and ran away. Overnight, the calf returned to his mother’s carcass, on which lions were feeding. Early the next day, our team deployed a helicopter so a veterinarian could drug dart the calf and move him into a special hand-rearing facility. He had sustained numerous wounds from being attacked by the lions. **Initially highly aggressive in the pens, this little fighter was named “Rocky.”** But as soon as he was introduced to another orphaned rhino calf, Squirt, Rocky calmed down. For five months, our team treated Rocky’s injuries, nursed him back to health and eventually weaned him onto browse. Then, in April 2019, Rocky, Squirt, and three other black rhino orphans were released back into the wild, where all five are now thriving. Sadly Rocky’s story is not unique. 900 black and white rhinos were killed by poachers in Africa last year, nearly 1 every 10 hours. Orphaned rhino calves are a tragic by-product of the ongoing poaching crisis. Saving these calves depends on swift action - overnight, calves can become victims of predation because scavengers are attracted to the mother’s carcass. All orphans from rhino populations where we work are raised under a controlled system to minimize human habituation so they can be successfully returned to the wild. We work with local partners in Zimbabwe to track and monitor rhinos, treat injured animals, rehabilitate and return orphaned rhinos to the wild, move rhinos from high-risk areas to safer locations, and work with local communities to build support for rhino conservation.