This page is about YOU helping ME to help rhinos in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. I am passionate about all forms of wildlife and in fact have incorporated this into my career as a guide and photo-journalist – not the most well-known in the world, but making my mark nevertheless. After the relative calm of the 1990′s and early 2000′s, the poaching of rhino for their horns is on the increase again, with almost weekly news of new cases across South Africa and other countries that still have populations of these great animals. The demand for the horn in the Far East as a traditional medicine is fuelling the slaughter and syndicates are getting ever more advanced and brazen in their killing. I’m not sure how to stop the demand from China and Vietnam (any ideas?), but what I do know is that the Conservation Services in the Kruger National Park need financial support in order to be able to patrol the huge park effectively. With the Kruger on my doorstep so to speak, and the bad news of every new carcass found hitting me hard and personally, I’ve decided to get off the sidelines and get involved. The profit from the sale if my images and calendars on this site goes towards funding of anti-poaching activities in the Kruger National Park and other reserves. I have two channels for the fund distribution: one goes directly to the Conservation Services of the Kruger National Park and the other goes through the funding channels of http://www.stoprhinopoaching.com/. If you don’t want to buy an image then a donation is fine too – either way, please help me to help rhinos!
See the Payment Options page for details on paying and ordering. The money will be passed on to the receivers mentioned above, with a monthly audit to present transparency of the movement of the money. I'm not doing this to make money but rather to help save rhinos!
Leon Marais.
