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Rhino Poaching Escalates in Save Valley

updated 18th November 2008

During the last nine months rhino poaching in the Save Valley Conservancy (SVC), a 350000ha wildlife reserve in the south east of Zimbabwe, has escalated to the point where 30% of breeding females have been lost. One of the most important sub-populations of black rhino is under threat - two more died in the past week.
The SVC anti-poaching forces are...

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The Sindisa Foundation is a registered United Kingdom Charitable Trust with the objective of supporting wildlife and ecosystem conservation, sustainable rural development and environmental education in southern Africa.

Introduction

Endangered Species - Wild Dog

The wildlife and wild places of Africa are an iconic manifestation of the diversity of Life on Earth. They are also the basic resource which can make a major contribution to the sustainable economic development of much of Africa. However, they are under threat from growing human populations, from inappropriate land-use, from exploitive greed and from political turmoil. The conservation of African wildlife and its inclusion in the economic lives of rural people is not only critical for Africa, it is a critical facet in the protection of the global environment.

Spoils of Anti-poaching EffortsAfrica needs to be, and has a responsibility to be, at the forefront of international conservation efforts. Today, the African effort is being led by determined and passionate people – of all nations, ethnicity and creeds – working tirelessly in the field. Their goal is to secure the functionality and diversity of the African wilderness and to use it as the basis for the sustainable socio-economic development of the continents people. They need every possible support and we need them to succeed.

Sindisa strives to provide a small part of that support and to persuade others to do the same.

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