This is amazing, thank you so very much for reaching out and expressing unsolicited support.
The rhinos need to be protected now and as we increase our efforts to patrol, we have started hiring in a Female Rangers team with Sven running interviews as we speak. We put out a call for applications for about 20 jobs and have over 200 applicants! Your funding will go to paying for some of these rangers to get trained and placed out in the field.
Many thanks once again
Dereck
Rhino Monitoring, Botswana
2022 - Support the Rhino Monitoring in Botswana - Donation of USD 10'000
Rhino Without Borders (RWB) is continuing the strategy of increasing wildlife monitoring of existing rhinos in the Okavango Delta instead of re-locating more animals from South Africa due to the current situation that Covid has created with the devastating loss of tourism and its economic support.
By far the largest challenge facing RWB is a tragic increase in poaching in Botswana since 2018. Which makes it all the more gratifying that more than 11 baby rhinos were born in 2021 and that - despite all the threats - the population of rhinos where we do the monitoring is steadily increasing.
For the people living alongside safari camps and protected areas, becoming a ranger or wildlife monitor is a unique opportunity to achieve economic stability. To date, all of Great Plains' wildlife monitors have been men. That is set to change starting in 2022. Currently, an exclusive team of female rangers is being recruited. The long-term impact of this project on conservation is equally an overwhelmingly positive one: the pioneering role of female rangers ultimately leads to increased community involvement in the conservation of Africa's most important animal species.
More success stories related to this project
Our partner
Dereck & Beverly Joubert - Great Plains Foundation
Dereck and Beverly Joubert are globally recognized, award-winning filmmakers, conservationists, and National Geographic explorers-in-large based in Botswana. Their mission for more than 30 years has been the conservation of key wildlife species, with a focus on large predators. They are the owners of Great Plains Conservation, which operates some of the most beautiful camps in Botswana and Kenya. Through the Great Plains Foundation, various nature conservation projects are driven forward.
The Jouberts have published 12 books, produced 30 films for National Geographic, and written half a dozen scientific papers as well as many articles for National Geographic magazine. They have received 8 Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a Grand Teton Award, multiple Golden Panda Awards, a World Ecology Award (along with Britain’s Prince Charles, Sylvia Earle, and paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey), and a Presidential Order of Merit awarded by Botswana’s ex-president, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, for their conservation work.
The Jouberts’ films have received widespread attention and have been viewed by millions of people. Films like «Eternal Enemies», «The Last Lions», «Soul of the Elephant» and their masterpiece «Eye of the Leopard» are known world-wide. For more information, please visit their website
www.wildlifefilms.co
All of Dereck & Beverly's work has one goal: to save the wild areas of Africa and protect the wildlife that depends on them. The President of Botswana described them aptly when he said, "Theirs is a life long passion; for each other, for big cats, for Africa...they are true "children of Africa."
Learn more about these animals
