Snare Stop Concept and Fundraising
I have been hunting for 17 years, on a hunt one day in 1999, I came across the scull of a warthog that has been dead for about 3-4 months. It was snared with a wire snare around the snout of the warthog indicating that it died a horrible death of hunger and thirst. This enraged me at first, after I calmed down I sat down and thought about it at the campfire that night and decided to do something about the problem. (We have since recovered approximately 140 more carcasses representing 12 species.)
THE SNARE STOP PROJECT.
Snare Stop is an anti poaching project concentrating on the removal and destruction of wire snares, and the education of rural communities in the alternative means of utilizing food sources.
Target Area of Operation.
We do not aim our operations at the managed game farming industry, they can afford to employ there own anti poaching teams and contractors to clean up their property¡¦s of snares. We will be available to help them in training the community¡¦s in their area, where a problem persists.
We target the rural areas that fall under the control of the local tribe or groups that resides there. And non-game farmers, who have no commercial interest in the game on their land. And those that can not afford to pay for anti poaching services or do not know any better than to snare animals with wire snares.
The Procedures We Follow
1. Make Contact and get permission to look for snares from the local chief or headman of the area, or landowner.
2. Locate and destroy all snares we can find.
3. Establish who is responsible for the snares. Normally this is one person in the community who has what we call a bush butchery; he sets the snares and then sells the meat to the local community.
4. We now have a meeting with the local headman and the local poacher explaining the principals of sustainable utilization of natural resources. (With out the poacher knowing that we know he is the poacher.)
5. We now establish a chicken farming project in the village and supply the village with all the materials to build the chicken coups and cages for rearing their own chickens for slaughter and supply them with 500 to 1000 chickens to start with depending on the size of the village.
6. Then we employ the local poacher to run the project, and eliminate all snares.
7. Follow up visits to the area is done weekly for the first 3 months and monthly there after, if all runs well.
8. If they have trouble with crop raiding animals we obtain the proper permits from nature conservation departments and dispose of the animals in a humane manner for the community.
Funding the Project.
Apart from securing sponsorships & donations it is proposed to fund the project by running a unique web based competition. The competition will be unique in the sense of limited tickets per draw, and a genuine fully inclusive high value prize, reasonable entry fee.
Limited tickets sold per draw.
It is proposed to have a winner for every 1000 tickets sold. (Great odds 1 in 1000 chance to be the winner.)
Fully Inclusive High Value Prize.
There will be two options to choose from when it comes to the prize, in view of the limited entry¡¦s per draw and entry fee there will only be a grand prize, no second or third prizes.
1. Hunting prize.
ÑÑ Economy return air fare from major airport in the USA to South Africa.
ÑÑ Seven day hunt in South Africa for 2 hunters taking 5 Plains game trophy¡¦s each.
ÑÑ All accommodation, meals and transport for the 7 days, included.
ÑÑ Dipping packing and shipping of trophy¡¦s back to the USA.
ÑÑ Taxidermy costs of trophy¡¦s.
2. Touring prize.
ÑÑ Economy return air fare from major airport in the USA to South Africa.
ÑÑ 14-Day tour for 2 people including 5 major game reserves.
ÑÑ All accommodation, meals, and transport for the 14 days, included.
ÑÑ $ US 2000.00 (two thousand) each spending money.
Included in both Prizes:
ÑÑ Game drives and activities.
ÑÑ Game or Park entrance fees and permits
ÑÑ Meals
ÑÑ Facilities to have clothes laundered
ÑÑ Accommodation
ÑÑ Qualified professional guide
ÑÑ Equipment provided for specific activity
ÑÑ Tea / coffee
ÑÑ Fruit juices at breakfast
Excluded from both Prizes:
ÑÐ Visas and visa fees required
ÑÐ Anti-malarial and vaccinations
ÑÐ Any items bought prior and during the tour for personal use
ÑÐ Airport Tax, Departure Tax and / or Government Tax
ÑÐ Optional additional excursions to be paid whilst on tour.
ÑÐ Alcoholic drinks
Entry Fee.
A entry fee of $US 45.00 (forty five USD) is proposed as a reasonable entry fee, the average American would like to visit South Africa, and can afford the hunt, but it is the extra cost e.g. air fare, shipping and taxidermy that prohibits them from taking the trip. We feel that at a cost of $ 45.00 and a chance of 1 in 1000, most people interested in hunting would be willing to take the chance.
Vehicle for entry of the competition.
Seeing that the target market for this venture is the USA it is proposed that the whole project be launched via the Internet. After discussions with various people involved in the hunting industry in the USA, a Current projection for ticket sales is 1000 per month or more. This equates to aprox. 33 sales per day. This, at a buy rate of 20% would mean we need 170 hits per day on the site. Current indications are that this can be achieved by posting the site address on bulletin boards specifically for the hunting fraternity. With out any further marketing.
Contact details
Év +27 12 547 3448
Ñ{ +27 12 567 6411
Ñy +27 82 8912 779
E-mail ÑK mwjohanl@mweb.co.za
Physical Address: 262 Peerboom Ave, Doornpoort, Pretoria, Gauteng
ÑM P.O. Box 80620
Doornpoort
Pretoria
Gauteng
South Africa
0017
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Yep you bet I'm going to send my $45.00, To a complete stranger for a chance to win a hunting trip to Africa.
Coyote
I have hunted a total of 104 days on tribal lands in various countries of Africa and I have found my share of snares. Only once have I ever found an animal in one of those snares. That was a Lichtensteins's hartebeest a few years ago in the Tondwa concession of Zambia. If you were able to find 104 animals in the snare, it sounds like your poachers are too dumb to remember where they put the snares and come back and collect the animals. Maybe you should train your poachers on how to recover their snared animals. Then you wouldn't have to buy all those chickens.
I don't trust anything coming out of Africa, Sorry!