Current Projects
Project focus for 2021- 2022
As Wild As is working with Ubuntu Wildlife Trust and FreeMe Foundation on a number of both short and medium term projects, adapting to needs as they arise.
Kwa Zulu Natal and Kruger – Ranger and K9 Anti Poaching Unit Support
The teams in all of the KZN Ezemvelo Game Reserves continue to fight the war against poaching and maintaining a safe habitat for wildlife to live untroubled by human intervention as much as possible. We have been supporting Ubuntu Wildlife Trust in its role as emergency and supplemental support for equipment and resources necessary for the Teams and Dog Teams on the ground to do their jobs, despite reducing budgets and increased requirements.
We will be continuing to address needs as they become crucial.
Rhino Orphanage Support
Here we support two orphanages in Kwa Zulu Natal possibly the most important wild population in the world and the source of all southern white rhinos alive today. One of which has government status and is closed to the public and run without real publicity and is for orphans from any Ezemvelo (Kwa Zulu Natal Government Wildlife) reserve – which also makes it the one that often needs the most support. The other is the private one but houses any orphans from poaching in KZN that is not from an Ezemvelo reserve.
We support these two by purchasing food for the orphans – milk, teff and lucerne – sometimes medicine. For the government one we actually buy the food and they collect it so no money changes hands – but the private one we put money into their trust as it is well managed and has excellent oversight.