Connected: Trophy hunting, animal poaching, wildlife trafficking, organized crime, rhino horn trade and now lion bones! Can you see it now? Stockyards along the highway filled with lions, rhino and who knows what next! Picture this: Lions squeezed into a stockyard or chicken coop style enclosure fed just the right calcium solution, and dose of antibiotics
Jessica leaving for South Africa mid May will deliver a donation check to Shannon’s bird of prey center near Pietermaritzburg, KZN. Jess, another Nikela Volunteer is going to South Africa! She will be delivering a donation check to one of our projects, namely Shannon’s bird of prey center. We have 14 days before Jess
Micah van Schalkwyk skydives to save endangered rhino from poaching, wildlife trafficking, illegal trade, fundraising. [When this was originally posted we weren't aware of the huge issue that was about to immerge surrounding the legalization of trading rhino horn. Some rhino advocates and fundraisers are pro trade, while others, including organizations like Nikela, remain opposed to
War on vervet monkeys and Baboons, primates viewed as vermin is shot, poisoned and snared in South Africa, Maggie, Nikela Volunteer, visits Karin Saks. It was with great anticipation that I awaited this afternoon. You see Maggie just returned from her trip to South Africa and had much to share with me about her time
