Rescuing Imperiled Wildlife in South Africa

Dear donors and friends of PNHF,

Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) would like to share the following successes achieved since the GlobalGiving Accelerator program in September 2021;

1. We've conducted 5 anti-poaching Operations.
2. Patrolled over 30km on foot.
3. Removed 275 illegally set poacher's snares.
4. Discovered 2 poaching camps.
5. Discovered 6 animals illegally killed in snares, 1 giraffe, 1 blue wildebeest, 3 impala and 1 warthog.
6. Taken 97 local community members out on anti-poaching operations.
7. Successfully rescued 3 animals. We darted two young spotted hyena and removed snares from them, one had a snare around its neck, the other inside its mouth. We rescued a juvenile Little Sparrowhawk that was trapped inside a grocery shop, she will be rehabilitated and released back into the wild.
8. Unfortunately every story doesn't always have a happy ending and we ended up euthanizing an adult rock monitor lizard, a small spotted genet and a female baboon, all hit by vehicles. We also found an african civet dead on the road after it was hit by a vehicle.  
9.  We organised two conservation presentations at a local organisation, one about the use of falconry in he rhabilitation of injured wild raptors and a presentation by the EWT on African Wild Dog conservation.

The above mentioned data and statistics gathered during the past three months has contributed to the conservation of our local biodoversity in the nature reserves, parks, tribal game reserves and neighbouring communities where we conducted operations.

We would like to thank each and every donor for making this possible. PNHF is planning on doing many more anti-poaching operations during the next three months.

Your continued support is greatly appreciated by us and every animal and person benefiting from our efforts.

Links:

• Spotted Hyena Rescue