A safari without rhinos? That’s the sad future we may be facing. Right now South Africa is home to eighty percent of the world’s rhinos, but poaching is reducing their numbers every year – in 2017, three rhinos were killed every day on average. Anti-poaching units across the country are fighting to protect these and other magnificent animals, and this week on The Rough Guide to Everywhere podcast we learn about one particularly unusual group.
Rebecca Hallett (@becca.hallett) speaks to fellow Rough Guides travel editor Georgia Stephens (@Stephens_GA) about the Black Mambas, South Africa’s first majority-female anti-poaching unit. This innovative team is drawn from the local communities, and they spend their days patrolling Balule Nature Reserve – without guns – and educating kids about the importance of conservation.
Georgia went to meet a few of the Mambas, and got to speak to them about gender, poverty and why you should never let a giraffe distract you in the bush.
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