Wildlife Action Group - Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2022

Wildlife Action Group is taking part in the Wildlife Ranger Challenge to raise awareness of the role of 45 rangers working to protect Malawi's Thuma and Dedza Salima Escarpement Forest Reserves ecosystem, and support an estimated 927 livelihoods.

Thuma and Dedza Salima Escarpement Forest Reserves

Raised:

$45,243
24%
Completed
Goal: $187,000
39 Donations

My story

Rangers are Africa’s unsung heroes. They don’t just fight poaching - they are conservationists, teachers, community support workers, leaders and much more.

The Wildlife Ranger Challenge, organised by Tusk and culminating on 17th September, celebrates their many roles, and is raising much-needed funds to support their work.

Wildlife Action Group works to protect, preserve and restore 2 forest reserves and the wildlife that lives there for future generations of Malawians. Thuma and Dedza Salima Escarpement Forest Reserves are in the central region of Malawi along the great rift valley. Covering a total of just over 50,000 hectares, the terrain is rugged and mountainous and home to possibly some of the last remaining escarpment elephants in Africa. Our dedicated rangers patrol both areas on foot. Their role is to protect both areas, monitor wildlife, prevent poaching, engage local communities in conservation, help communities resolve human-wildlife conflicts and assist with low impact tourism.

The WRC has ensured zero loss of jobs throughout the Covid period. We have maintained payment of salaries, recruit 5 new rangers, built 2 new camps to house rangers, conducted Law Enforcement Workshops with stakeholders, continued court monitoring, vehicle maintenance, supplied food rations to rangers in the field, covered workers insurance and medical needs.

With WRC 2022, we hope to realise much-needed funding to build an administration block at our HQ for law enforcement, maintain ranger field rations, BFR ranger training, and provide additional ranger equipment.

Give today, and the Scheinberg Relief Fund will match every dollar donated, amplifying your impact. Follow campaign updates on social media with #ForWildlifeRangers

Total fitness activity

21 km covered

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

May 2, 2023, 10:17:09 AM

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.

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

Half Marathon for WAG Malawi

Sep 29, 2022, 7:36:08 PM

Half marathon complete! 2 hours 9 minutes and 42 seconds. (wont let me change the time on this post?!?) Thank you all for your support

Half Marathon for WAG Malawi
Corredor Distance: 21 km

Thuma and Dedza Salima Escarpement Forest Reserves - Wildlife Action Group

Jul 14, 2022, 7:56:41 AM

Wildlife Action Group is a non-profit, Malawian-registered NGO. The group works to protect, preserve and restore two forest reserves and the wildlife that lives there for future generations of Malawians. Our work to date is showing a significant improvement on conservation impact on the ground. Image Credit: Wildlife Action Group

Thuma and Dedza Salima Escarpement Forest Reserves - Wildlife Action Group

Julie Hill

$11.15

10/1/22, 3:41 PM

Scott

$5.56

Well done mate x

9/30/22, 11:15 AM

Mitch

$11.12

Let’s gooooo

9/30/22, 10:20 AM

Mum, grandad, granny kath and Micky

$54.00

Xx

9/29/22, 6:13 PM

Harry

$11.37

Go smash it lad

9/21/22, 8:02 PM

Sean Baker

Wildlife Action Group Malawi

Raised $492 of $500

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