Rescuing Imperiled Wildlife in South Africa

Dear friends and supporters 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 December 2023;

1. We've conducted 30 anti-poaching Operations.
2. Patrolled over 180km on foot.
3. Removed 805 illegally set poacher's snares.
4. Discovered 7 poaching camps.
5. Discovered 61 animals illegally killed in snares by poachers, these include 13 cape buffalo, 1 giraffe, 9 zebra, 18 impala, 1 wildebeest, 1 bushpig, 2 warthog, 1 porcupine, 2 bushbuck, 5 waterbuck, 2 grey duiker, 2 nyala, 1 kudu, 2 spotted hyena and 1 elephant.
6. Taken 169 local community members and international volunteers out on anti-poaching operations.
7. Successfully rescued 6 large animals. We darted and removed snares from the following animals: 1 spotted hyena and 2 female impala, they were all treated and released again. We darted and relocated a Hippopotamus bull that wandered into a mining area and successfully released him in the Olifants river. We also managed to get two hippopotamus back into reserve after they wandered out into neighbouring farming areas.
8. We assisted to re-collar an elephant bull who's tracking collar stopped working some years ago.
9. We donated indigenous trees to local communities during a wetlands day celebration in coperation with Ledet, Dffe, Sanparks and Saeon.
10. We donated 10 bags of dog food to organizations in the area in need of food for dogs in shelters.
11. We did one environmental educational presentation to an international school group, there were 20 students in the group.

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 one of our supporters for making this possible. 

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

Links:

• Hippo relocation article
• PNHF website