By Yvonne | Rhino Team
Protecting the "Big 5" in Africa — the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and buffalo — is an urgent task that requires a multi-faceted approach. These iconic species face numerous threats, including poaching, habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, and the illegal wildlife trade. A combination of strong conservation efforts, policy changes, and community engagement is necessary to safeguard their future.
As you are aware we have begun protection with large national parks in Africa that have a number of supporting ranger staff for protection, Rhino is still currently our biggest threat due to the large value put on a Rhino;s horn, even though these horn's could be removed without killing the animal, poachers are often unexperienced and so using helicopters and other methods they search for the rhino's break into the parks and kill the animal for the horn as it offers the fastest approach.
Poachers are putting more and more funding into operations as the value is always increasing in the Asia black markets. This means we have had to up our game too with your support we now have a number of rangers across all parks equipped with motion detective camera alerting the team and we have enhanced radio communications across all parks. We have introduced ex-racehorses that have been doanted to us and do not cause any danger to the Big 5 so we are now using horses for checking the permameters of the parks, cutting our cost of fuel and bringing our operations more inline with our carbon commitment.
As well as horses we have a large number of trained K9's that work alongside our rangers in tracking and chasing poachers, we have been very successful with catching 12 poachers over the past 6 months and stopping many more attempts, we also have not lost a rhino over the past 3 months so we can see our efforts are working and this is down to your support!
Thank You,
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO of Action Change
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO of Action Change
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