SAM NKOMO, a professional game guide who has worked in various national parks around the world, has organised a 500km walk aimed at campaigning against elephant and rhino poaching.
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The walk would be held from Matopos National Park to Victoria Falls under the theme “‘Elephant and Rhino Anti-Poaching Walk” to raise awareness of the more than 300 elephants and countless other game animals killed by the cyanide poisoning that grabbed international headlines last year.
Nkomo told Southern Eye yesterday that Sport, Arts and Culture minister Andrew Langa and the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority would be among the stakeholders participating in the 21-day walk.
“As an individual who has so much passion for wildlife, I decided to facilitate an anti-poaching campaign that will serve to inform the communities on how precious wildlife animals are and how we can help the national parks conserve the animals, especially considering the number that has been killed in Zimbabwe,” Nkomo said.
The 300-plus elephants killed by cyanide poisoning last year are regarded as the worst single disaster in Southern Africa in the past 20 years. Nkomo said the participants would be stopping in every village along the way and giving lectures on the importance of wildlife.
“Animals are a God-given gift in Africa and if we don’t look after them we are robbing the future generation. It is also a sign of us failing to appreciate nature,” he said.
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