IRF's Holiday Wish List

We've made our list, and checked it twice. This holiday season, IRF is helping embattled rangers in South Africa and Zimbabwe get the training and equipment they need to stop rhino poaching now!

Purchase an item from our rangers' wish list for one of your nearest and dearest, and you'll help make the holidays very bright for rhinos and the dedicated rangers working to protect them from poachers.

Brave and passionate rhino rangers in Zimbabwe and South Africa work under unbelievably difficult conditions to protect endangered rhinos and their habitats. You can help them safeguard rhinos and other wildlife by “purchasing” one of the much needed items on our wish list.

It's Easy to Give

It’s easy to give -- choose the item below you’d like to purchase, click on the donate button, and then just list the name of your item in the “notes” section of the donate form.

Thanks, and happy holidays!

Basic Tool Kit

$25

Rangers use basic tools (knives, pliers, etc.) to collect evidence from rhino crime scenes and to maintain equipment.(Please list “tool kit” in the notes section to purchase this item.)

Fingerprint Kit

 

Transponder tags are fitted onto rhinos' horns so that rangers can easily track rhinos to protect them from poachers. 
(Please list “tags” in the notes section to purchase this item.)

 

 

 

 

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Digital Camera

$200

Camera are essential both for identifying and tracking individual rhinos, and for take photos of crime scenes to use as evidence when prosecuting poachers.
(Please list “camera” in the notes section to purchase this item.)

 

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GPS Unit

$400

Rangers use GPS units to pinpoint exact locations of poaching incidents, so they can request back-up to help catch poachers and provide injured rhinos with veterinary treatment. 
(Please list “GPS unit” in the notes section to purchase this item.)

 

 

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Security Training

$900 each

To improve their abilities to find, arrest and aid in the prosecution of poachers, rangers will be trained in investigative techniques, intelligence gathering, evidence collection, communications, and rhino identification and monitoring, among other topics. (Please list “training” in the notes section to purchase this item.)

 

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Security Assessment

$1,350 each

Our security experts will assess the current operations in each protected area, and will then provide targeted training and basic equipment to rangers.
(Please list “assessment” in the notes section to purchase this item.)

 

 

 

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