Please Help Me And My Friends Charity Walk

[OldNog 432]

Hello

 

Myself and my best mate are raising money to help anti poaching efforts in Zimbabwe. To do this we are walking across the Gonarezhou National park in Zimbabwe, unaided and unarmed. We are joining a guy called David Hulme, who has been walking the border of Zimbabwe for the same causes since 2009 and works for the professional hunter Roger Whittall. We plan to walk the distance in just over a week.

 

We are raising money for the Save Valley Conservancy anti poaching team to do our small part to try and stop the illagal killing of elephant and rhino for the ivory market, mostly in Asia. I have been snaring rabbits and foxes here at home since i was a kid, but unlike the snaring you and I are used to, snaring in Africa catches literally everything you can think of. In the area we are walking across, aside from huge numbers of elephant and rhino, wild dogs are getting caught and killed in large numbers.

 

All of the photos on our facebook page are taken by either myself or my mate ( He is a pro photographer and im a freelance) and at some point in the future we will be selling a few prints and all money will go towards the cause.

 

Please could you take a few moments to join our facebook page and have a read on the reasons that made us decide to do this...if not for the actual cause then support us to show the anti's that just because people hunt, doesnt mean they dont give a shit about conservation.

 

I thought i put a few miles in on a sunday for a dig with the terriers, but this is gunna be a killer!

 

Cheers

 

Dan

 

http://www.(!64.56:886/ZimbabweAntiPoachingWalk2013

 

http://africanxmag.com/rhino_in_the_bathroom.htm

 

http://africanxmag.com/the_bordeline_walk.htm

Edited March 5, 2013 by OldNog

[scothunter 12,609]

ill donate to that and id also be interested in a pic of an elephant when you get round to it mate.makes me sick when i see a load of tusks and ivory siezed,knowing they were killed and butchered for some daft chink who believes powdered ivory is gonna cure all his ailments.wonder how chuffed they be if we powdered down thier pandas lol

[OldNog 432]

cheers mate. If you like our facebook page we will be able to put updates on our progress. We are in the process of sorting out the finer details about donating. Its a worthwhile cause i feel.

 

We are working on a press release at the moment and will conact the papers an tv. I think i want people to know that we both hunt. My mate is originally for Zim but was kicked off his family farm and mved to england about 10 years ago and has hunted all his life over there.

 

In africa, the vast majority of conservation work is carried out and funded by professional and commercial hunting.

[scothunter 12,609]

its defo a good cause mate thats for sure. not on facebook,but let me know what pictures you get,want one so i can blowup and frame for livingroom wall.

[OldNog 432]

Will do mate

 

cheers

[OldNog 432]

[Attack Fell Terrier 864]

Best of luck old nog, In all honesty (and I really don't want to come across as being an arsehole but) I just could not justify spending money on an animal in another country before helping kids in my own country.

 

I understand you see things differently though and I hope everything goes well and you reach any targets you hope to achieve.

 

All the best .

[OldNog 432]

Cheers mate. I understand what you mean as well. Not something any sane person would turn down though...saying that, im not sure there is much sane about walking in an area where everything could kill you!