Rescuing Imperiled Wildlife in South Africa

Dear friends and donors of PNHF,

It is time to report again on the work that Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) has done over the past couple of months. Below are some of the successes we achieved since our last progres report in August 2023;

1. We've conducted 25 anti-poaching Operations.
2. Patrolled over 159km on foot.
3. Removed 887 illegally set poacher's snares.
4. Discovered 9 poaching camps.
5. Assisted in the arrested of 1 suspected wildlife trafficker and confiscated a protected Southern African Hedgehog in his possesion, the hedgehog will be released into the wild shortly.
6. Discovered 91 animals illegally killed in snares and poisoned by poachers, these include 27 cape buffalo, 4 giraffe, 15 domestic cattle, 19 zebra, 8 impala, 1 wildebeest, 3 kudu, 6 spotted hyena and 6 elephants.
7. Taken 233 local community members and international volunteers out on anti-poaching operations.
8. Successfully rescued 4 large animals. We darted and removed snares from the following animals: 1 male lion, 1 lioness and 1 kudu bull, they were all treated and released again. We darted a male African Wild Dog that broke out of a reserve and successfully released him back on the reserve.
9. We darted a female baboon with very bad burn wounds on her feet and unfortunately the veterinarians decided to put her down humanely .
10. We assisted in the collaring of a young male lion together with the Endangered Wildlife Trust.
11. We did two environmental educational presentations to two local school groups, there were over 50 children in the groups.

The above mentioned data and statistics gathered during the past four 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. In some areas we have noticed a decline in snaring even zero snaring in certain properties, this is a big win for us and shows that our efforts are successful. 

We would like to thank each and every donor for making this possible. 

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

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