How An Unarmed Group Of Women Fight Poachers In Africa
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
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Illegal poaching of endangered animals has been a large problem in Africa for many years. Three rhinos are poached every day in South Africa for their horns, and a quarter of a million elephants have been killed for their ivory in the past six years. In addition, poachers also target antelopes and other endangered species such as wild dogs and cheetah for their meat and skin.
In order to combat this problem, Transfrontier Africa founded the Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit to protect the Olifants West Region of Balule Nature Reserve, one of Africa's largest game reserves.
The Black Mambas is an unarmed and all-female group, trained to spot, track down and arrest poachers. They are all between 20 and 30 years old and come from local communities and villages surrounding the reserve. So far, The Black Mambas have found and taken down over 12 poachers' camps and 3 bush meat kitchens while also reducing snaring and poisoning by 76% in the area, proving more effective than drones or thermal optics.
But The Black Mambas Program does more than just protect endangered wildlife. It also creates bonds within local communities and educates them about the animals and the importance of saving their natural heritage. The group's goal is to win the war on poaching not through violence, but through local communities being able to work together.
Executive Producer: Laura Ling
Producer: Paige Keipper (Hansen)
Cinematographer: Morgana Wingard
Editor: Jordan Dertinger
That's awesome so good to know that those woman are protecting these reserves and teaching children about the importance of the environment.
breno henrique Yeah its very good
I can't believe they don't have binoculars.
Someone should set up a gofundme or something similar.
this is awesome on many levels.
viva mambas! viva!
So good to know that half a world away out of my sphere of influence there are people actively making a difference to save animals from humankind destruction. If I had the financial resources, I would be part of the effort to support their work on behalf of all caring people.
Keep it up ladies. Hats off.
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WOW...Thank You ♡ Black Mambas ♡
So inspiring and beautiful. A lovely story on the human spirit, empowerment, and conservation.
One of the most efficient and long term solutions to stop poaching is to educate the youth on the importance of protecting animals and the environment.
We need more programs like this. Education is crucial and not enough people have it so that we can save our planet.
I hope there are programs similar for men.
I love animals and I never new people were actually stopping it
Love the video keep up the good work
awesome work, ladies!
This video made me freaking cry it was so inspirational.
great job! lets save the planet. =D greetings from Toronto
I'll join them! I'm not black, I'm an Asian man, but I'd help. But I wouldn't go unarmed though. I'd take a paint gun with pink or yellow paint balls.
ecbenny J no, I'd buy an M4A1, a M9 pistol, a combat knife, some flash bangs, Kevlar, and plenty of ammo.
be careful you don't use the flash bangs to scare animals unless you absolutely need them to run.
ecbenny J let's make a men gang also
This is amazing, Just Wow . you rock girls
Really cool.
until now 10 poacher disliked this video.
Wish I could like this twice.
Amazing stories how do you even go to this places, isn't expensive?
Kruger National Park is in South Africa fly to Johannesburg then drive down the R24 North to N1 North to N4 East
The Kobe Bryants
What country is this in.
Botswana, Kenya?
Reply if you know.
Thanks
The country is Texas, Europe. The city name is Madagascar, and this area of the city is called "Beijing."
please tell me thats not weave
I only hunt amazon delivery drones.
LOL
mugge47 Hunting season is the holiday season
we gotta take down those amazon drones and flip them for profit
LMAO
I’m very passionate about protect animals How can I be part of the mambas team ?
Interesting how the group being made up of naught but women is seen as a positive thing. I'd wonder whether they'd promote an all-men community just as vigorously. Funny that.
Baux Sedai they do and they have.
Baux Sedai
Was this comment...necessary? To say the least.
Baux Sedai lol u don't know South Africa then do you? we have some of the worst stats of crimes against women. Any empowerment of women is a positive here. Take your anti feminism bs somewhere else because groups like this are seriously needed here!
FrozenEternity Well, I'm not an anti-feminist; I am wholeheartedly against prejudice against women but I'm just as much against giving them certain privileges on no grounds but their gender.
A politician in my local community advocated for a bill that would force employers to pay members of the LGBTQ more than other employees because it is harder for them to get a job, as a gay man I fought against that piece of legislation.
If you want equal rights you should advocate for equal rights and not hold a double standard in which a men-only group is sexist and backwards and a women-only groups are just and progressive.
This is Africa my friend. Abuse against women is terrible here. Women start at zero here so they need groups that empower them more then men just to get close to meeting the half way in terms of opportunities offered
I was unsubscribed.....I've been wondering why I didn't get any new videos :(
Silly to be unarmed anti poachers...
Fuck yea
2:26 thank me later
thats all u took in from this?
what? the video is intersesting adn informative before that?!
lmaoo
Wait a minute: they said they sometimes call armed units. So who's that? They're the people these badasses call to go high threat level, wouldn't they be the real story?
I think they report to the authorities, just like a neighborhood watch.
Who are the authorities? This whole story is how THEY stop the poaching, but if they just notify people with the actual ability to stop poachers, then why not show those people?
Sim Lucien lack of resources I suppose, y bother scouting for poachers when u need uniforms in cities, these groups do half the job
scouting that is, and the authorities do the arresting part
of course this is just my opinion, I have no inf on the subject
The video doesn't make sound like they're the scouts (which is an important job). It makes it sound like they're the one's actually stopping poaching, then says they send the armed units because poachers are obviously armed, that's how they kill rhinos and other giant animals in the first place.
They are the ones who disable the snares. It's the snares that are the real killers. The wild is very big in Africa and randomly finding a rare rhino is very unlikely, so the snares are the most efficient way to hunt rhinos. If you disable snares, it makes poaching very hard even if you never do anything else.
they don't have guns because they can not handle the triggers
Do they get funding from their government?
probably not, maybe wealthy people or/and charity groups
They are funded by trophy hunting. Don't worry, usually the trophy hunters are guided to only kill the aging animals and not the ones that haven't reproduced yet. Trophy hunting money also goes to the local communities to incentivize the locals into helping anti-poaching efforts or even setting up their own. The more rhinos, the more trophy hunters can kill, the more money goes to the locals, the the more they want to protect from poachers and the more effectively they can protect them. Yeah, one of the links in the cycle involves the killing of animals, but it is very few compared to the animal mass murder the poachers do. The poachers are the real villains, but they are a product of circumstance and some reformed poachers are the most effective anti poaching activists and they should be encouraged to change sides and not threatened with harsh punishments. The goal is to save as many rare animals as possible and nothing else.
These women are my heroes!! Yay! I want to meet them !!!!!!!! Hot! Hot! Hot!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍
casual sexism there: "women in my opinion are much better at that"
It's only sexism if he thinks they're better at it as a result of some trait inherently related to being a woman.
It's possible that he was talking about the effect of being raised on that particular culture with those particular gender roles.
David Enrique Yeah, that's a fair point.
I think it's more how the community perceives women. Men are traditionally warriors. I kind of see this as an African version of what happened in the American Antibellum period. Women were seen as pure and good, and needed to be protected, but women flipped that on everyone's head by saying that because they are so pure and good, we will champion progressive movements like women's rights and antislavery.
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Someone should bribe tribe leaders to make certain animals sacred, and killing one equal to that of killing a person. And let that teaching spread.
In the Bible it says - God said too them “ be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth and subdue it” genesis 1-28