Rescuing Imperiled Wildlife in South Africa

Dear friends and supporters of PNHF,

It is that time again and we are pleased to share what the Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) has achieved over the past couple of months. Below are some of the successes we had since our last progres report in August 2024;

1. We've conducted 45 anti-poaching Operations.
2. Patrolled over 203,3km on foot.
3. Removed 1737 illegally set poacher's snares.
4. Discovered 1 poaching camps.
5. Discovered 84 animals illegally killed in snares and poisoned by poachers, these include 4 domestic cattle, 1 donkey, 1 domestic goat, 2 baboon, 6 white-backed vultures, 9 cape buffalo, 4 giraffe, 1 eland, 1 sable antelope, 3 zebra, 21 impala, 2 wildebeest, 1 ostrich, 5 waterbuck, 2 grey duiker, 3 nyala, 9 kudu, 3 spotted hyena and 3 elephant. We have noted a very steep rise in the poaching of predators and scavengers lately, this is an alarming tendency.
6. Taken 298 local community members and international volunteers out on anti-poaching operations.
7. Successfully rescued 6 large animals. We darted and removed a snare from a hippopotamus in the town of Phalaborwa, it was successfully treated and released again. We darted and removed a snare from a young giraffe bull. We rescued a female side-striped jackal from a cable snare. We relocated a pride of 4 lions, a female with three cubs, that wandered onto a mine next to Phalaborwa, we moved them back into a protected conservation area.
8. We assisted to collar 1 African wild dog and 1 lioness.
9. We took a group of local students on an environmental education outing to Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre.
10. We did one environmental educational tree walk to celebrate arbour week with a local school group, there were 25 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.

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• Newspaper Article