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 November 2024;

1. We've conducted 67 anti-poaching Operations. 
2. Patrolled over 359,41km on foot.
3. Removed 1027 illegally set poacher's snares.
4. Discovered 8 poaching camps.
5. Discovered 50 animals illegally killed in snares and poisoned by poachers, these include 1 domestic cattle, 1 warthog, 3 bushbuck, 11 cape buffalo, 3 giraffe, 1 black-backed jackal, 2 zebra, 19 impala, 3 wildebeest, 1 waterbuck, 3 grey duiker and 2 kudu. 
6. Taken 247 local community members and international volunteers out on anti-poaching operations.
7. Successfully rescued 2 large animals. We darted and removed a snare from a young male impala in the town of Phalaborwa, it was successfully treated and released again. We darted and removed a snare from a adult spotted hyena.
8. Unfortunately not all endings are happy ones, we confiscated a young white-backed vulture from poachers and due to the bird's wing and leg being broken, the difficult decision was made to put it down.
9. We managed to collar 1 spotted hyena.
10. We apprehended one snare poacher and help to convict two other snare poachers.
11. We hosted a group of international students for an environmental education workshop on snare poaching and on snakes and reptiles.
12. We hosted an environmental talk evening with guest speaker Dr, Bart Gazendam that presented a talk on Rhino Dehorning, we had 50 people attending.
13. We did one environmental educational talk at a local school, the talk was about conservation and poaching.

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.