Written by Rory Young Interesting morning. We captured a poacher (2nd from left in the picture) and then just after taking the picture walked into a Black Mamba. The first two rangers and the poacher walked past it and then it came out of the grass and chased me and the ranger on the right […]
Written by Rory Young – Keep watching this space… Forty four arrests in last twenty four hours! And fifty five in the last forty eight! That has to be some sort of record… In the beautiful National Reserve where I am currently doing in ops training of Malawi DNPW rangers we are trying to make as big of […]
Written by Rory Young – These thirty-odd men have just finished making 33 arrests during the in-operation portion of their advanced anti poaching and anti trafficking training organized and funded by chengetawildlife.org and lionalert.org in Liwonde National Park in Malawi. To put that in perspective, they have made the same number of arrests of poachers and […]
Rory Young shared this photo of a poacher’s tracks. Just to prove that I have been paying attention to Rory’s tracking lessons, I will tell you what I can about the person who made the tracks. From the large size I think that a man left these prints. Also male because the toes are close […]
Rory Young – The doctors removed a number of glass shards from the ranger’s eyes, but he is expected to fully recover.
Here are three of the anti poaching rangers participating in the advanced wildlife protection in ops training taking place in Liwonde National Park. The training is funded and organized by Chengeta Wildlife and ALERT under the auspices of the Malawi Department of National Parks and Wildlife. One of these ladies is giving the men a […]
Rain rain rain. Mud mud mud. More rain, more mud. This is going to be a slippery affair! Home base for the next 30 days. My roommate. A nice fat lady baboon spider the size of my hand… The thatch on my hut has been leaking so I have been jumping up as the […]
I recently arrived in Liwonde National Park in Southern Malawi. I am here to train 30 experienced anti poaching officers in advanced anti poaching operations for 30 days. The training is fully funded by Chengeta Wildlife and organized by ALERT. University of Coventry are also now actively working through information I have and will be […]
Elephants are being slaughtered in unprecedented numbers and if it continues experts predict they will be extinct in the wild within 20 years. They are killed for their ivory tusks. This ivory isn’t used to create anything necessary, it is used to flaunt wealth. Elephants are being slaughtered out of existence so the ignorant rich can say, “Look […]
Another busy day in the lecture room at Sidokoro, Parc National de Haut Niger, Guinea. The theory phase has been amazing. From Director General level down to AP team leaders, from all over Guinea, the work is being taken very seriously and the discussions have been animated and indicate a high level of motivation and […]
