Tashinga Initiative - Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2023

Tashinga Initiative is taking on the Wildlife Ranger Challenge to raise awareness of the vital role our 42 rangers play in protecting Zimbabwe's Chewore South, and supporting an estimated 210 livelihoods.

Chewore South – Zimbabwe

Fundraising as part of a team:Tashinga Initiative - Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2023

Raised:

$62

124 remaining days

Goal: $2,000

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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 16th September 2023, the campaign raises vital funds for Africa's biodiversity guardians.

Tashinga Initiative - Chewore South

Rangers based in Chewore Safari Area form part of the patrol effort across the unique landscape that makes up the Zambezi Valley’s wildlife protected areas. Chewore is part of the undeniably spectacular Mana-Sapi-Chewore UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Rangers protect territorial integrity, undertake biological monitoring, conservation management, community relations and manage equipment, resources and tourism. Rangers patrol in extremely rugged and remote conditions including amongst prehistoric dinosaur spoors.

WRC Grants have significantly supported a total of 245 ZimParks Rangers. The grants addressed food security through the provision of monthly dry food hampers, the provision of ranger patrol kit such as backpacks and boots, the maintenance of daily field-based and law enforcement operations, thus enhancing morale and efficacy.

For WRC 2023, your support to the Chewore ZimParks Rangers could be far-reaching: the provision of monthly patrol food hampers, Ranger patrol kit, two Zambezi River patrol boats and patrol vehicles can be serviced, maintained, and fuelled. Rangers’ morale is strengthened through the provision of life insurance cover.

Give today and the Scheinberg Relief Fund will match every dollar donated, amplifying your impact. Join us in speaking up #ForWildlifeRangers

Team Preparations underway!

May 14, 2023, 11:56:49 AM

This year WILDLIFE RANGER CHALLENGE Team CHEWORE SOUTH is once again, for the third time, participating in WRC23! We are so excited that these Rangers have committed to train for and undertake the gruelling 21km, running in the extreme heat and rough conditions of the Zambezi Valley, each carrying a 22kg backpack! Proud of you TEAM CHEWORE! To support TEAM CHEWORE SOUTH we are fundraising RIGHT NOW to make sure each team member has boots to train in, running shorts, a backpack, T-shirts and a cap, and for RACE DAY on 16th SEPTEMBER that the team has banners, and a chance to celebrate their effort with a chicken and sadza lunch and cooldrink afterwards! Please support us to support this team!

Support a unique conservation initiative empowering and uniting wildlife rangers across Africa.

May 2, 2023, 4:20:23 PM

Wildlife rangers operate on the very frontline of conservation across Africa, routinely making personal sacrifices to put their lives on the line to protect the continent’s magnificent wildlife and habitats. Yet they are so much more than just law enforcement officers: rangers are teachers, community support workers, mediators, researchers and so much more. Unfortunately, resources are not keeping pace with the scale of the challenges they are trying to tackle. For the fourth year running, the Wildlife Ranger Challenge sets out to redress this, by raising critical funding to cover operating costs, including salaries and equipment, for over 10,000 rangers. This will help them protect threatened wildlife and some of the continent's most vulnerable areas, while also protecting communities and securing coexistence with wildlife, as well as providing for their own families.