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Aston Sparks and Bruce Martin, directors of Lake Albert Safaris, discuss aspects of operating an anti-poaching unit in Uganda, looking at training, resources, and the specific conservation challenges faced. * Unit Training and Expansion: The training process for new recruits includes basic combat readiness for armed encounters and specialized ambush
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The Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) anti-poaching team works to protect various wildlife areas on the edge of the Greater Kruger. In this episode, the anti-poaching team focuses on vital conservation efforts near a high-risk property. The video covers these key topics: • Wildlife Monitoring & Technology: The
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This episode follows the Lake Albert Safaris anti-poaching team on patrol in Uganda's Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve. The reserve currently has nine anti-poaching staff, with plans to roughly double that number as game populations grow. Recruitment happens from within. Aston Sparks, a director of the company, relies
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A Strategic Partnership for Conservation The Mozambique Wildlife Alliance (MWA) was established as a local non-profit organization tailored to Mozambique's conservation needs. MWA grew out of Saving the Survivors' (STS) operations in the country. The rationale was to create a dedicated, independent organization able to work
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The Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) focuses its anti-poaching efforts in the bushland around the Kruger National Park. Eugene Troskie from PNHF has noticed a disturbing trend in recent years where lions are being targeted for their bones to supply the Asian traditional medicine trade. To kill a lion,
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Setting up a new anti-poaching operation takes more than boots on the ground. In this video, Derek Littleton from LUWIRE in the Niassa Reserve of Mozambique explains why information is sometimes more useful than firepower and why turning villagers into allies works better than treating them as adversaries. He&
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In this episode of Patrol, the anti-poaching team in the Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve, Uganda, clears a freshly set snare line in the thickets scattered across the savannah. Lake Albert Safaris director Aston Sparks explains how rangers read a poacher's signature. The materials, the spacing, and the way
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This video offers a behind-the-scenes look at a central Operations Room (Ops Room) in LUWIRE, Mozambique, dedicated to biodiversity monitoring and anti-poaching efforts. It explores how modern technology is integrated with ground-level enforcement to protect wildlife and manage ranger patrols with precision.
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By Zig Mackintosh Today’s anti-poaching strategies have changed from those of 10 or even 5 years ago. While rangers, trackers, and patrols are still front and center, security systems have evolved over the last decade as technology has become a crucial component. Now, command centers pull live feeds
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Eugene Troskie has been pulling snares out of the bush around the Kruger National Park for years. This patrol with the Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) shows what that work looks like. The footage follows Troskie and his team across difficult terrain on the Kruger boundary, locating and removing illegal
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Fred Kiiza, Chief Warden of Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Uganda's largest protected area, explains the poaching challenges his team faces and the role of the Joint Operations Command Centre (JOC) in combating wildlife crime. Wire snare poaching remains the primary threat, with Uganda Kob as the main target
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There’s a starry-eyed perception of anti-poaching work that makes for exciting action TV. Armed rangers, night-vision pursuits, poachers in handcuffs. But. The reality is, it’s mostly about hours and hours of walking, watching, waiting. Sitting in the dark, listening to the bush, squashing mosquitoes, hoping