anti-poaching

Akashinga, the Brave Ones, an all female anti-poaching ranger unit in Zimbabwe

Akashinga, the Brave Ones, an all female anti-poaching ranger unit in Zimbabwe

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Akashinga or The Brave Ones, is a conservation anti-poaching unit founded on the principles of women’s empowerment as the main driver for social, economic and environmental change. Despite their worldly anti-poaching popularity, what makes Akashinga tilt the scale of Zimbabwe’s perceived gender roles, to bravely defeat poachers and bravely face their own cultural values? The…

Silent Forests: A rare glimpse inside the forest elephant poaching crisis

Silent Forests: A rare glimpse inside the forest elephant poaching crisis

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We are in the midst of an elephant poaching epidemic across the African continent. Fueled by a growing middle class in Asia that is hungry for ivory status symbols, these iconic and intelligent mammals are being slaughtered for their tusks at an alarming rate. While there has been a lot of media focus on savannah…