From Peter Milton to Tom Snitch on to ShadowView calling them conservation drones, UAVs or Air Rangers, they are all about protecting the last rhino. Only recently with the increase in military equipped poachers ravaging entire elephant herds and rhino crashes have the experts turned to drones. Protecting endangered wildlife species from the sky with UAVs
Kirsten Everett, begs her country folk and the world help save the Rhinos from extinction due to poaching. “I want to help save rhino. What can I do?” Questions like this arrive at NIKELA quite frequently. This last week we responded to Kirsten, a high school student in South Africa, and invited her to write
Black Rhino and White Rhino are being poached at the rate of 2 a day in South Africa by organized wildlife crime syndicates and being trafficked to Asia. Where is the concern? With the huge rhino losses being experienced in the Kruger National Park and other public and private game reserves (2,400 since 2006 :
Daily animals are caught in snares in Africa, endangered and threatened species are not spared from the poachers’ traps. They don’t use tranquilizer darts, hunting rifles or military issue fire power. They don’t make the news like the rhino and elephant poachers do. However, these low key, every day poachers are a huge threat to
Horrific number of white rhino, black rhino poached in 2012, possibly 650 killed for illegal trade of their horn. Two heart warming stories of support. This letter is from Peter Milton who’s work we support via Nikela Rhino Rescue: As 2012 draws to a close, it is with heavy hearts that we reflect on the year.
3rd Degree with Debora Patta and Julian Rademeyer exposes the illegal RHINO HORN TRADE. Caution! Graphic video footage. Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
As always Animal Welfare Activist Chris Mercer tells it like it is. Asia’s illegal wildlife trade driving African wildlife species to extinction. ……. Let’s prove Chris Mercer wrong. Let’s show him that we do care, that we can change and that we will stop the looting of Africa’s wildlife, endangered, threatened and all species
Finally someone convicted for rhino poaching, illegal trade, wildlife trafficking… or was it? The conviction of Chumlong for hunting rhino to legally access their horns has been very prominent in the news recently. Most everyone is cheering, “Finally a conviction!” However, is Chumlong the sacrificial lamb while the real poachers, illegal traders and
Organized crime is poaching Africa’s rhino to extinction partly because law enforcement is neither trained nor organized. From one of our trusted INTEL and anti-poaching sources we hear that “Experienced Security Operatives” support the belief that Kwazulu-Natal (KZN) Rhino poaching is on the rise due, inexperienced enforcement efforts ignoring the basics of
As a volunteer run organization we at Nikela appreciate and believe even the simplest things make a difference in our global quest to save the last rhino in Africa. The black and white rhino are in serious trouble and at risk of extinction in the next ten plus years due to relentless organized poaching driven
