About the Wildlife Ranger Challenge: 

COVID-19 has brought tourism revenue to a halt across Africa, threatening the important work and livelihoods of the rangers who protect iconic African wildlife such as elephants, pangolins, rhinos, lions, and more. Ranger teams are now uniting around the Wildlife Ranger Challenge, a running race with one goal: to raise money to support thousands of their fellow rangers. Now is the time to go the extra mile—it’s time to race to support our rangers. Every dollar donated will be matched by the Scheinberg Relief Fund, doubling your generous contribution.

Your contribution will help support 105 rangers and an estimated 525 livelihoods in and around Sioma Ngwezi National Park in Zambia.

The role of rangers:

On a daily basis, the rangers in Sioma Ngwezi have to deal with extensive bushmeat poaching, as well as work to counter the over exploitation of natural resources such as Devil’s Claw, which is harvested illegally for its medicinal value.

A new strategy for effective patrolling has been rolled out to ensure that more sections of the park are patrolled more regularly, thus ensuring an increase in arrests to address a wide variety of incursions. 

How your donation will help:

Funds raised by participating in the Ranger Challenge could be used to support the purchase of solar chargers for charging of devices in the field used to capture data through the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool, as well as solar lights to use by rangers in the field.

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Tusk is registered with JustGiving in the UK (or GoFundMe.com in the USA). Our online fundraising sites allow you to create a sponsorship form with easy access for your supporters, knowing their money is going directly to Tusk. UK tax-paying donors can enhance their contribution by agreeing to Gift Aid their sponsorship (for every £10 you raise, Tusk will receive another £2.50 from the Government provided you are a UK taxpayer). US supporters wishing to make a tax deductible donation can do so via GoFundMe.com.