WAG's anti-poaching team is working tirelessly to tackle illegal poaching and save animals' lives. This project supports the anti-poaching activities in Thuma Forest Reserve, Malawi, to provide a save future for the remaining endangered elephant population.
For more than 15 years the Wildlife Action Group is providing protection for the remaining Thuma elephant population by deploying a brave and dedicated local anti-poaching team in the area. But elephant poaching, especially for bush meat and the ivory trade, is on the rise again. 8 elephants were killed and 261 wire snares collected just over the past 12 months. This project will help to build up capacities of Thuma's law-enforcement team to protect and save animals' lives.
The project will significantly and directly improve organizational capacities by supplementing local ranger salaries and providing field equipment (like boots, sleeping bags, backpacks, binoculars) to strengthen anti-poaching activities by covering greater areas, as well as by supporting environmental awareness programmes at local schools and communities and paying for necessary maintenance of an elephant fence to avoid human-wildlife conflicts.
Our goal is to expand and build up an effective anti-poaching body by providing urgently needed field equipment and increasing the number of scouts in the anti-poaching team in Thuma Forest Reserve to ensure the future of Malawi's declining elephant population and its habitat and to protect the integrity of the watershed and forest resources for the Malawian people themselves.
