Tracker Dog Funds in Action

One of our projects to help protect the rhino in South Africa, is having a tracker dog which accompanies the private security force against poachers.

Our dog has now been transferred to the Phinda camp where it will be housed and is being paired with a handler now. Black African’s are often terrified of dogs so the “pairing” with a handler is a very important part of the process. They are pairing six dogs to handlers in this training. Two of these are from the Zululand area that we are concentrating on, three from Swaziland and one from the Sabi Sands. Our donation doubled the coverage for the Zululand area. This will be very effective for both catching poachers but preventing them coming into the area as news of these deadly dogs will travel fast.

Thanks for everyone’s support. We have made some of these donations in advance of collecting the funds so we can put things in place to personalise the fundraising. Imake has loaned “Imake a Difference” the money to do this. Two days into our efforts we have raised over $9,000 about R70,000.