Good News for Rhinos

Howard Buffett During his Speech

On the 14th of March 2014 something extraordinary happened.

Everyone who witnessed it knew that the poachers would be in for a surprise. Soon, very soon the rhinos would be able to live without being hassled by killers. For those of you who do not know, this extraordinary thing was Howard Buffett signing a R255 million, blue cheque to SANparks. Along with that, Standard Bank promised to donate R10 to SANparks for every tweet that used the #Aid4Rhinos, and do away with charges on this account.

The money that was donated would be used for technology, an intelligence system, for the rapid response tea. The helicopters and other equipment which is necessary to prevent poaching, and save the rhinos left in SA predominantly (SAN Parks), but also East and West Africa. This investment will help more than the animals, if less rhinos and elephants are poached then less money will be used to help fund the conflict in areas such as the Central African Republic and Uganda. So in the long run, if we stop poaching we are able to help save many victims of radical organisations all over Africa as well.

There is a reason that this money was given to the South African National Parks (SANparks). This is because we have the majority of the rhinos are in our country so if we can get a system to work here then the system can then be reproduced by other countries to save these animals.

This means that now our country has the funds to get the tools necessary to win the poaching war; we do however still need the support of all South Africans to educate and help conservation for future generations.