Hemmersbach Rhino Force
Hemmersbach Rhino Force's logo | |
| Founded | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Ralph Koczwara |
| Type | Privately founded |
| Focus | Animal conservation |
| Location | |
Area served | Africa |
| Method | Direct action |
| Website | rhino-force |
Hemmersbach Rhino Force is a direct action conservation organization acting with a focus on the African rhinos. Rhino Force's main activities comprise of anti-poaching rangers in the Greater Kruger National Park, a biobank called Hemmersbach Rhino Force Cryovault to preserve rhino genes and the Black Rhino Reintroduction to bring back rhinos to the Mid Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe.[1][2][3]
The privately funded organization offers its services free of charge. It is a division of the IT services provider Hemmersbach.[4]>[5]
History[edit]
Hemmersbach Rhino Force was founded in 2016 by Ralph Koczwara, an IT entrepreneur from Nuremberg, Germany. Koczwara learned about the rhino-poaching crisis while he was on a photo safari through the South African Greater Kruger National Park as a tourist.[6][7][8]
In 2019, the TV program ZDF filmed Hemmersbach Rhino Force operations in Middle Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe which focused on conservation efforts for elephants.[9] In 2020, ZDF then filmed a follow up on the elephants journey across Zimbabwe. [10][11]
Hemmersbach Rhino Force Elite Anti-Poaching[edit]
Hemmersbach Rhino Force is operating units to protect rhinos from poaching from South Africa and Zimbabwe where 80% of rhinos are living. [12] However, the nature of the work leads Rhino Force to counter all illegal activities in the bush and surrounding community. Due to the severity of the pangolin poaching crisis, this has become an important focus of Rhino Force. [13][14]
All actions are performed in cooperation with South African and Zimbabwean law enforcement authorities, which have the legal powers to legitimize the conducted actions. They use surveillance technology such as seismic sensors, tracking sensors and infrared radars. Besides this, Hemmersbach Rhino Force places value in reading and blurring tracks (combat tracking). In order to avoid poachers from entering reservation areas and killing animals, Hemmersbach Rhino Force applies an “8 Step Operational Plan”, a crime prevention methodology to organize and steer Anti-Poaching activities.[15][16][17]
Since international trade of ivory has been prohibited by the CITES Convention since 1989, it is mostly criminal poacher syndicates that operate from Asia and are identified as the originators of illegal activities.[18]
The blame for the poaching is therefore not to be found in the local population, for whom the poaching is usually the last possibility for the financial provision of the family. For this reason, Rhino Force strictly rejects armed force and uses force only in absolute exceptional cases for self-defense.[19][20]
Hemmersbach Rhino Force Cryovault[edit]
In 2018, Hemmersbach Rhino Force diversified their operations away from solely engaging in military-based approaches to conservation. Hemmersbach Rhino Force Cryovault is a biobank, which is located in South Africa and preserve deeply frozen sperm, egg cells and other genetic material of African Rhinoceros. These gametes are collected by Rhino Forces veterinarians during various situations e.g. closely after a Rhinoceros death or following on a dehorning procedure.[21][22][23][24]
The project aims to enable future assisted reproduction of Rhinoceros by applying genetics collected and cryopreserved. Moreover, to establish a reference database for this species. Any material collected will be banked alongside animal biometrical, environment and location data, which provides crucial information for the studying of population dynamics.[25][26]
References[edit]
- ↑ Hemmersbach Rhino Force
- ↑ GmbH, finanzen net. "100 Wild Elephants Will Be Relocated in One of the Largest Relocations in History From the 9th of September Until End of October 2018, From the Sango Wildlife Conservancy to the Rifa Safari Area W... | Markets Insider". markets.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "Zimbabwe – 100 elephants being relocated from Save Valley to Rifa Safari Area". Africa Sustainable Conservation News. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "Per Helikopter zur Bohrinsel". nordbayern.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "Hemmersbach offers IT subscription service for companies". CBS News. CBS News. 3 August 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ↑ Rundfunk, Bayerischer. "Ralph Koczwara, Unternehmer - Eins zu Eins. Der Talk". BR Podcast (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2020-05-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hemmersbach Rhino Force on Youtube
- ↑ "Dieser Nürnberger kämpft in Afrika gegen Wilderer". nordbayern.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ Theiss, Sandra (17 November 2019). "Species protection with the rifle -Can trophy hunting serve animal welfare?". ZDF. ZDF. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ↑ "Species protection with the rifle". Deutsche Welle. DW. 18 May 2020.
- ↑ Theiss, Sandra (5 August 2020). "mein ausland: Simbabwe - Trophäenjagd für den Tierschutz?". Pheonix. Pheonix.
- ↑ Trade in Rhino Horn
- ↑ Putsch, Christian (12 March 2020). "PROTECTION AGAINST POACHERS - AND THE CORONAVIRUS?". Welt.
- ↑ Pustch, Christian (12 March 2020). "Pangoline Unerbittliche Jagd auf das Wundertier". Welt.de. Welt.
- ↑ Fairplanet Dossier: Protecting the living rhino
- ↑ "Elephant Relocation: A 700km Journey". Nzira Travel Zimbabwe | Best Travel Magazine in and around Zimbabwe. 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "Delivered counter-poaching solution for Hemmersbach Rhino Force". BSS Holland. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- ↑ SAVE THE RHINOS! Vincent Barkas and Tumi Morena on how poaching is perceived differently
- ↑ "Former Benonian is dedicated to catching rhino poachers". Benoni City Times. 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ Rhino Force Projects: Cryovault
- ↑ "Rhino conversationalists turn to genetics to save species". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "New efforts in motion to save endangered rhino". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "geolifes.com - Animal Fertility and Reproductive Research". www.geolifes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ↑ "Rockwood Conservation: A progressive and scientific approach to saving Africa's rhinos". YouTube. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Rhino Conservation | Natural Environment". Rockwood. 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
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