The Perfect World Foundation’s very first fundraiser for wild animals in 2014, ‘Save the Rhino’, was organized to help rhinos. The poaching for rhino horn was worse than ever that year, and the year also ended with the highest figure ever – 1,215 rhinos were brutally murdered by poachers in South Africa alone. Since then, our own and other organizations’ joint efforts have contributed to the figure slowly but surely declining. ‘Only’ 769 rhinos fell victim to poaching in 2018 – still upsetting figures, but they represent a positive decrease. The funds that The Perfect World Foundation has raised for rhinos over the years have been used for initiatives such as increasing security around certain extremely vulnerable areas, funding communication equipment, fences, night vision binoculars, anti-poaching teams, guard and tracking dogs, and much more. In addition, the organization has worked nationally and internationally to raise awareness and knowledge about the trade in rhino horn. The work of raising funds for rhinos continues to support actions such as moving 100 rhinos from South Africa, a country afflicted by poaching, to safer areas in Botswana, providing food to orphaned rhinos in South Africa, and supporting organizations that patrol areas that are afflicted by poaching in South Africa. The Perfect World Foundation has also contributed to funding 46 units of Wildlife Rangers to patrol in Kenya and Tanzania, to combat poaching. The organization’s efforts to stop rhino poaching will continue until the day when there is no longer any trade or poaching, and we are determined to ensure that that day will come well before total extinction.
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