Anti-Poaching Dogs Mug in aid of the Bonamanzi Ranger and K9 Project
Looking for a conservation gift - a gift that will make a MASSIVE difference :
In December 2022, the Bonamanzi Ranger and K9 Unit was born, Cumbria Zoo, Dogs 4 Wildlife, Project Rhino, The IFPCP and Bonamanzi Game Reserve announced the launch of the brand new collaborative project, which brings four passionate, dedicated and committed organisations together to help fight frontline wildlife crime in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
The four organisations have united for a common cause; the ongoing conservation and protection of one of South Africa’s most bio diverse natural heritage sites.
This project supports a new ranger unit, consisting of 2 rangers and 2 dogs supported for an initial 2 year period. Added to the reserves already well-established Anti-Poaching unit and Project Rhinos K9 unit.
Bonamanzi APU – Or Anti Poaching unit is are made up of a team of rangers that regularly patrol to stop or prevent hunting. Their passion for protecting the reserve doesn’t stop with Rhinos – but with trees, insects, bugs, reptiles and everything that lives side by side to make up the whole ecosystem.
On patrol these brave guys not only routinely patrol the reserve but “react” to alerts where it is not unlikely to come face to face with poachers, capture illegal hunters, seize bushmeat, destroy hunting capability, regularly remove snares. Whatever it takes to keep the reserve safe.
The Poaching Problem - Spotlight on Kwa-Zulu Natal
- In the late 19th century, following decades of intense hunting, Southern white rhinos were thought to be extinct, until fewer than 100 were discovered in HiP. (20 minutes from Bonamanzi)
- More than a century later, the regions rhinos are once again facing an immense threat.
- Poaching gangs have now shifted their focus away from the large national parks (poaching in Kruger has declined significantly in recent years), into smaller private reserves and KwaZulu-Natal where the majority of rhinos have been killed this year ”Ms Barbara Creecy, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment.
- Between January and September 2022, reports suggest that 190 rhinos have been poached within KZN.
- During the first nine months of 2022, one rhino was killed every 35 hours in the Province.
- During the first 6 moths of 2023 one rhino was killed every 19 hours one every 30 hours in KZN.
- Out of the 231 rhinos killed in the first 6 months of 2023 143 were in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
- The demand for rhino horns remains a constant threat to rhino populations.
15oz / 426ml
Dimensions
Diameter of mug - 8.5cm
Width (including handle) - 13cm
Height - 11.5cm
