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2012Generously supported
the following major
donors:
Luangwa
ConservationCommunity Fund
Members: FlatdogCamp, Robin Pope Safari
Mfuwe Lodge & the Bus
Camp Company, Kafunta
Safaris, Remote Africa Safa
and Shenton Safaris.
SLCS Newsletter Edition 2. (April, May & June)
SLCS 10 KM FUN RUN 2012
THE RACE BEGINS..
The winner, Kachaba Susiku from Jumbe with footballers
Kalililo Kakonje and Davies Phiri.
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Note from Rachel McRobb
CEO SLCS
Welcome SLCS friends!Ive got to say the year is flying by and seems to go fasterwhen it is packed full of such a variety of activities. To start off on a cheerful note, we had a
fantastic annual Fun Run and Sports Day event on 30
th
June with our biggest turn out yet.Over 3000 people attended the sports day and we were lucky to be graced with players fromthe Zambia National Soccer Team who spiced up the event and took part in relays and
Madalas football matches. The event would not have been possible or as successful withoutthe support from the Elephant Charge, Proflight, Lusaka Backpackers and Chris Fenner, USAIDand SHARE II who donated all the tshirts, Personal Touch, Flatdogs Camp, Lion Camp, Norman
Carr Safaris, The SLCS team, Evans Graph and all his sports team and of course Honor Janza,Kalililo Kakonje and Davies Phiri from the Zambian National Soccer Team. We are alreadylooking forward to next years run.
In May, myself and some colleagues from Zambia, Mocambique, Tanzania, Namibia, SouthAfrica, Zimbabwe, West and Central Africa attended a bushmeat / snaring workshop in South
Africa hosted by Panthera. Experts in different fields gave presentations from differentcountries followed by a brain storming session on characteristics, drivers, impacts and possiblesolutions to the snaring and bush meat trade. The general consensus is that it is increasingcontinent wide and is if not curtailed will lead to massive wildlife and habitat losses. A followup work shop is planned for later in the year where hopefully decision makers will be present.
The past few months we have received visits from major donors and SLCS friends. JohnLemon from Painted Dog Inc. in Australia who funds our wild dog anti-snaring team visited usin May. Nolwenn Drouet from Awely in France funds our human wildlife conflict mitigationprogram also visited for a week in May. Carol and Steve Van Bruggen from Sacramento,California who founded the Africa Hope Fund and also fun SLCS anti-snaring work visited inMay and June. Its always great to be able to show people what we do and spend time with
everyone and we look forward to seeing them again later in the year and next year.
Our joint SLCS / ZCP aircraft is finally in the country, and should be Zambian registered in acouple of weeks. Thanks to Neil McGreev for flying it to Zambia for us.
More interesting news in the rest of this newsletter about different aspects of the project butbefore that we would like to express our deepest appreciation to all of our donors across theglobe and a special thanks to our most recent donors; Civil Society Environment Fund Zambia,Murray Katz from Canada, Dazzle Africa from Las and Sea World and Busch Gardens.
Enjoy the read.
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SLCS ANNUAL 10 KM FUN RUN 2012 IN PICTURES
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THE MESSAGE IS SIMPLE AND CLEAR. MOST OF OUR RECOVERED SNARE WIRE COMES
FROM ELECTRICAL SOURCES AND FROM WORKSHOP SOURCES SUCH WINCH CABLE AND
PONTOON CABLE. KEEP IT SAFE AND LOCKED UP SO MORE ANIMALS DO NOT END UP
LIKE THIS.
WIRE KILLS WILDLIFE, KEEP IT SECURE!!
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NEWSNAREWIREJEWELLERYFOR
SALEBYMULBERRYMONGOOSE
KATEWILSON
Wire snaring is one of the most devastating forms of
poaching in Zambia's Luangwa Valley, killing and injuring
many of the area's iconic wildlife species. With the purchase
of Mulberry Mongoose beautiful jewellery made from
recovered poachers' snares and snare wire cut free from
wounded animals in Zambia's Luangwa Valley you will be
supporting the anti-snaring efforts of Zambian conservation
organisations and protecting the wildlife. Your purchase of
Mulberry Mongoose's Snare Wire Jewellery directly
contributes to these efforts. Please contact
[email protected] and visit the website:
http://www.mulberrymongoose.com/snare-wire-range
African Safari &Yoga Retreat October 26th-31st,20
SLCS Trustee Carol Van Bruggen and her
husband Steve, whose foundation the
Africa Hope Fund have recently sponsored
two Uyoba Community school teachers to
attend teachers training college. Carol and
Steve are in Luangwa for about 6 weeks
and during this time help out SLCS where
they can and also contribute generously to
our anti-snaring programs.
Africa Hope Fund is hostingtheir first major fund raising event in
Sacramento California on Sept 23rd in
order to raise funds for conservation and
education projects in the South Luangwa
Valley.
Safari on the Riverwill be heldat the marina and home of Steve Kuhn and
Carol Van Bruggen-Kuhn and will feature
music, dance and the foods of Zambia.
Art work has been donated by several wel
known artists and textiles from Tribal
Textiles will be auctioned off. Carol and
Steve expect over 250 attendees and plan
to raise over $50,000 US at the event. Go
tohttp://SafariOnTheRiver.comfor more
information
Upcoming Fund Raising event
in California for all our US
based supporters
FUND RAISING EVENTS FOR SLCS
October 26th
31st
2012
For info. Contact Stacy Jamesfor more info.:702.332.1501email: [email protected]
www. adafire.com
South Luangwa Yoga Retreat with Jada Fire
Proceedsgo towards
SLCS
Projects
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Update on Law Enforcement
support -Benson Kanyembo, SLCS
Operations Manager
Anti-poaching remains a challenge in South
Luangwa and the GMA during the dry season. With
76 ZAWA anti-poaching scouts deployed as escort
scouts on walking safaris, a large gap is left in the
law enforcement sector. As more and more people
flock for job opportunities in Mfuwe, the area continues to feel the impacts of an
increasing population including forest destruction, wildlife losses due to snaring,
increase landscape change from farming and so forth.
A recent combined law enforcement meeting was held in Mfuwe between
different regions including Southern, Eastern and Bangweulu Area Management
Units to find ways to combat poaching.
Our upcoming support of Malama CRB village scouts will also assist in protecting
the southern section of the park.
The CEO meets with Malama CRB to finalize a plan for support in Malama.
Table 1: SLCS supported patrol results April June 2012
Source: SLCS 2012
Month LP SP DP Snares Suspects Firearms Ammunition DR Elephant mortalities Ivory
April
May
Total
4
6
10
4
2
6
9
14
23
84
226
310
9
7
16
2
5
7
26
199
225
3
1
4
2
2
4
1
2
3
With genero
support from
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Visit from Program Director
Nolwenn Drouet
Awely has a new Program Director,
Nolwenn Drouet who is based in France
and has considerable experience
working in Africa and on human
wildlife conflict. Nolwenn visited us for
the first time and spent a week with us
in Luangwa getting to know the Rad
Caps team, meeting chilli farmers, chilli
blasters, owners of the new elephant
safe grain stores, meeting community
members who experience wildlife
conflicts on a regular basis and also
coming up with some great new ideas and programs with the team for this year.
Human Wildlife Conflict
Mitigation Work to Expand
In addition to our current work involving human
elephant conflict mitigation in Kakumbi, Nsefu
and Mkhanya Chiefdoms, we are extending our
work to a fourth Chiefdom this year. Malama
Chiefdom, on the border of South Luangwa
rarely gets any recognition or support and is an
important area facing all the same problems as
the other Chiefdoms.
In addition to setting up a wildlife conflictassessment and monitoring program, our chilli
farming program will be extended to Malama
and a coordinator will be hired to oversee these
activities.
Current area of HWC programs.
Expanding to Malama Chiefdom.
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Staunch supporter of three conservation projects in Luangwa (SLCS, Chipembele and Zambia carnivore
Program), John Lemon, Chairman of PDC and Geoff from SAVE foundation in Perth spent two weeks
with us in May. John and his wife Ange fund SLCSs wild dog anti-snaring team and have done so for the
past three years. John and Anges passion and hard work for the wildlife in Luangwa is greatly
appreciated. John and I also joined the Zambian Carnivore Program in Liuwa National Park to help with
wildebeest work for a week.
Leopard trapping
Two years ago a leopard collared by a research project in Luambe National Park crossed the river and
made his way to south Luangwa, settling in near Lion Camp and Kaingo. His collar needed to be removed
so plans for this started late last year. Efforts were made last year to locate and immobilize him with no
success, I did not even get a glimpse of him. This year we used a trap, got some bait, worked out his
movements and territory and built a platform in a tree with help from Lion Camp. Leopard trapping can
often takes weeks to be successful and we anticipated spending endless nights nearby waiting to hear
the trap shut. On night two we were lucky, he couldnt resist the bait and we were able to immobilize
him and take off his collar. Until next time, best wishes, Rachel & Benson.
Visit from Painted
Dog Inc Chairman
John Lemon
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