Tashinga Initiative (DAPU) - Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2024
Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2024 TEAM DAPU and has been protecting wildlife in the rugged Dande Safari Area and neighbouring Mbire wildlife concessions for more than 20 years with great passion, funded and managed by cmsafaris.com
Tashinga Initiative - DAPU - Dande AntiPoaching Unit – Zimbabwe
Our Story
Rangers are Africa’s unsung heroes. They hold diverse roles as conservationists, teachers, community support workers, leaders and much more.
The Wildlife Ranger Challenge, organised by Tusk, is a celebration of solidarity, connection and camaraderie for the ranger profession. Culminating on 21st September 2024, the campaign raises vital funds for Africa's biodiversity guardians.
Rangers that form the Tashinga Initiative - DAPU - Dande AntiPoaching Unit based in Dande Safari Area (523 sq. km) and its vast, adjacent Mbire concessions, form part of the patrol effort across the unique landscape that makes up the Zambezi Valley’s 12,820 sq km of wildlife protected areas.
Rangers protect territorial integrity, undertake biological monitoring, conservation management, community relations and manage equipment, resources and tourism. Rangers patrol in rugged and remote conditions, along the Mozambican and Zambian international borders.
WRC Grants have significantly supported ZimParks Rangers.
For WRC 2024, support to DAPU Rangers could be far-reaching: to provide monthly, all-important patrol food hampers, so that Rangers are operationalised with appropriate and essential patrol kit, plus support for the vehicle patrols which need fuel each month. Rangers’ morale is significantly strengthened through the provision of life insurance cover and fresh vegetable supplies from Ranger Vegetable Gardens.
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TEAM DAPU HAVE COMPLETED THE 21KM CHALLENGE!
Sep 27, 2024, 3:04:14 PMSuper thrilled to report that Team DAPU have completed their 21km challenge! Also big big distances between the team members due to work and patrol requirements, but these were overcome in order to get together! Great times and so very well done!
TEAM DAPU COMPLETED THE WRC 2024 SITUP CHALLENGE!
Sep 15, 2024, 11:31:07 AMThis team once again completed the third of the mini-challenges, the Situp Challenge and their results will be seen on the 17th September on the WRC website Leaderboard! Well done to Team DAPU for managing to complete the challenge despite a heavy patrol and deployments schedule.
TEAM DAPU: RESULTS OF A 14-DAY PATROL - HARD, DETERMINED WORK
Aug 17, 2024, 12:02:33 PMTake a look at the results of the work of this extraordinary Antipoaching Team, including Wildlife Ranger Challenge Team DAPU! Keen eyes, complete dedication to the task at hand!
TEAM DAPU HAS COMPLETED WILDLIFE RANGER CHALLENGE 2024 PUSHUP CHALLENGE!
Aug 17, 2024, 11:43:36 AMThis team committed and has delivered to Widlife Ranger Challenge 2024 Pushup Challenge and the team did a FANTASTIC, PHENOMENAL 220 Pushups in 2-minutes. This is the best score in the whole of the Mid-Zambezi Protected Areas region out of 10 teams! Very well done on all the training and hard work that went into the preparations! Absolutely outstanding!
Andrew Pearce and CMSafaris' Dande Antipoaching Unit
Jul 27, 2024, 10:09:49 AMTogether with Andrew, take a look at the results of DAPU's efforts in Dande's Conservation Areas!
A visit to understand DAPU's amazing work
Jul 27, 2024, 9:58:22 AMA donor to Tashinga Initiative, Andrew Pearce, has just met CMSafaris' amazing DAPU members out in the field in Mbire District Council conservation areas and got to understand their work so much better - what DAPU does, how DAPU does it, and the incredible results of DAPU's ceaseless efforts to keep wildlife thriving in the area, at the same time undertaking significant community development and support.
WRC 24 Team DAPU participates in Mini-Challenge Time Trial 2.4kms
Jul 20, 2024, 2:12:33 PMIt was so great for DAPU to finally just squeeze in the task of completing this WRC 24 Mini-Challenge - at last light, running on the airstrip near their base - and got the job done - Tashinga Initiative was able to submit their JotForm online! - it had been a hectic week of patrolling in the east, in the north, as well attending court duties for poacher apprehensions. Snare collections are vast, and the snaring does not stop - so this unit's duties absolutely include finding every snare possible!