Africam.com: The Global Initiative To Fight Poaching For most people, when they think of poachers, they think of hunters who trespass, kill an animal and haul the carcass away in a truck. Not anymore! The modern poacher is either male OR female and is very hi-tech! These criminals are armed with GPS devices, night vision and forget about trucks, they have helicopters! How is this possible? Well, the criminals who are committing these heinous acts are gang members and drug dealers who have found yet another way to threaten society. They are merciless! They will shoot the rhino with a drug to paralyze it, then hack off the horns and hooves with a chainsaw and leave the animal to die a slow, cruel death.
This creature never had a chance!
Africam, live video at your PC! A group of people are dealing with this very issue in South Africa and they decided to do something about it. They pooled their resources and reached out to the community and started Africam.com. Africam, is the first organization that sends live streaming images from the African bush all day, every day, 24/7! They have joined forces with other groups to stop the poaching of Rhino’s in Southern Africa. Over the years millions of viewers from over 170 countries have seen these amazing animals, as they exist in their natural habitat, through the use of a LIVE web cam! Now, Africam.com is using these live images to raise awareness about Rhino poaching to the rest of the world!
Baby rhino on Africam.com
Africam and Wildlife Act Join Forces! Africam has partnered with the Wildlife Act to help stop poaching. Wildlife Act is a non-profit organization that actively advances conservation by initiating, implementing and managing monitoring projects on reserves which do not have the means to do so themselves. They do this FREE of charge! The project aim is to to facilitate the research and development of innovative technologies to combat the current increase in hi-tech rhino poaching in Africa. The Wildlife Act project is lead by Specialist and Rhino Ecologist, Simon Morgan – PhD Candidate, University of KwaZulu-Natal. The Wildlife Act acknowledges the development of a committee which was formulated at the LEAD SA Rhino Summit on Monday, August 23, 2010, to improve communication and coordination among the anti-poaching initiatives by SAN Parks, government, police, security agencies, private game reserves, rhino owners as well as other conservation and wildlife organizations. The Wildlife Act will work in conjunction with this committee while at the same time striving to achieve our main aim and objectives. For more information, please visit WildlifeAct.com
Get involved! What can you do to help? Please click here to make a donation or contact the folks at Africam.com by clicking Contact Africam
Listen to the podcast of my interview with Paul Penzhorn, the co-founder of Africam by clicking here.
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Yuck… I just don’t get it. I understand you need to make a living, and the living conditions in some of these nations is among the poorest in the world but this really needs to stop, particularly since their endangered. My only suggestion is to help build the economic infrastructure of these countries. The problem is the cultural differences are problematic.
Oh, my heart is breaking! Will RT right away!
I REALLY CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY! WHY can people be so callous and cruel… No wonder why the world environment and fauna is going down the toilet.. WE ALL MUST MAKE A STAND ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! RICH :0( ProjectBONO
It is amazing what technology can be used for today, both for evil like poachers and drug dealers – and for good to stop them.
This is beyond me!! My family does not watch anything other than National Geographics and Discovery channel and it breaks my heart to see these Rhinos, Whales, Dolphins, and other animals exploited!! There seems to be a global fight against these poachers and gang members but they continue to battle now with GPS and Helicopters!!??? They must be stopped! Thanks for your post!
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Unfortunately the poverty can lead to more & more of that, without thinking of the consequences, not only in south Africa, look at those who are using animals fur to make a very expensive coats! that is making me sick!
Great topic
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This is such a sad situation. I hope they get them.
The cams are so cool!
Thanks for this post. My kids love the cam!
That is definitely a horrible situation that I would have never heard about otherwise. Gratitude for sharing.
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