Tashinga Initiative - Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2023

Tashinga Initiative is taking on the Wildlife Ranger Challenge to raise awareness of the vital role these 43 Zimparks rangers play in protecting Zimbabwe's Safari areas, and supporting an estimated 210 livelihoods.

Tashinga Initiative - Wildlife Ranger Challenge

Amount Raised:

$7,022

140%

Completed

Target: $5,000

38 Donations

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Rangers are Africa’s unsung heroes. They hold diverse roles as conservationists, teachers, community support workers, leaders and much more.

The Wildlife Ranger Challenge, organised by Tusk, is a celebration of solidarity, connection and camaraderie for the ranger profession. Culminating on 16th September 2023, the campaign raises vital funds for Africa's biodiversity guardians.

For WRC 2023, your support to Tashinga Initiative - ZimParks Rangers could be far-reaching:

-to continue providing those monthly, all-important patrol food hampers, - to ensure Rangers are operationalised with appropriate and essential patrol kit,

- to maintain vehicle and/or boat patrols operating through the Zambezi Valley,

- and your donation will keep Rangers’ morale strengthened through the provision of life insurance cover.

Give today and the Scheinberg Relief Fund will match every dollar donated, amplifying your impact.

Join us in speaking up #ForWildlifeRangers

21km marathon is underway

Sep 16, 2023, 6:15:37 AM

It's a fantastic milestone once again achieved for 7 ZimParks Ranger Teams to have set off on each team's 21km course, carrying 22kg backpacks in a massive show of solidarity and teamwork across the Continent of Africa for Wildlife Ranger Challenge organised by Tusk Trust and Game Rangers Association of Africa. Very very proud of Teams Hurungwe, ZAVARU, Chirundu, Chewore South, Dande-Mbire, DAPU and Doma for putting their hands up to be part of this Ranger Movement!

Team Preparations underway!

May 31, 2023, 3:19:54 PM

We are fundraising locally for our 6 ZimParks 4-man patrol unit teams that are participating in Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2023! We have made good progress with support from our the donors and supporters listed at https://tashinga.org/annual-wildlife-ranger-challenge-the-tashinga-initiative/#cards. We have training programmes T-shirts, caps, backpacks, training shorts, training boots, foodstuffs underway and some have already been delivered across the Zambezi Valley! More to be delivered in the next fortnight to each and every team.

Team Preparations underway!

May 13, 2023, 12:37:58 PM

This year Tashinga Initiative - ZimParks have registered 6 ZimParks Ranger teams based across the Zimparks Lower Zambezi Valley's Protected Areas, to participate in Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2023! To support these 6 teams we are fundraising RIGHT NOW to make sure each team member has boots to train in, running shorts, a backpack, T-shirts and a cap, and for RACE DAY on 16th SEPTEMBER that the team has banners, and a chance to celebrate their effort with a chicken and sadza lunch and cooldrink afterwards! Please support us to get them running 21km carrying 22kg backpack!

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

May 11, 2023, 5:40:27 PM

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.