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Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum

20620 Eastwood Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44126
440-331-4183

General Information:
Jane Rodwan, Director of Project Development
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Book an Elefence Speaker/Media Information:

Barbara Brooks, Director of Public Relations

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EleFence President Dick Houston
will be a Keynote Speaker
at the
Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum Africa Film Festival
Chanute, Kansas
April 23 & 24, 2010

The Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum has one of the most extensive natural history-exploration libraries and film archives in the world.

please check out details at: www.safarimuseum.com

EleFence has been awarded two grants from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to help with conservation efforts in Lower Zambezi and South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.

Protecting Lower Zambezi National Park

Conservation Lower Zambezi (CLZ) intervention and support has led to a major reduction in poaching activities in the past three years. Consequently, large animals have migrated back across the Zambezi from Zimbabwe to the increasingly protected Lower Zambezi National Park.

Legal hunting operations in Zimbabwe also push many large animals into Zambia. With ongoing protective policies in place, CLZ hopes to expand biodiversity into richly diverse levels. CLZ and EleFence focuses primarily on three distinct types of poaching. Zambia is still a relatively poor nation and the rural people do not have the luxury of viewing wildlife for its beauty.

Therefore, they believe subsistence poaching is necessary to feed their families. The greatest poaching threat and challenge in the park, however, is the commercial meat poaching trade. Due to improved communication and a more rapid response to gunshot reports, there's been a decrease in the use of weapons for commercial poaching. However, the result is an increase in the use of wire snares.

This silent, lethal loop of wire bent to form a noose is placed on a wildlife trail. Snagging animals around the necks, legs or trunks causes severe injury and can result in a slow, agonizing death. Finally, trophy poaching continues to be focused at the most endangered species for their ivory, horns, pelts and body parts.

CLZ Operations Base and Training Camp

Base camp is strategically located on the banks of the Zambezi River and only five minutes from the nearest airstrip. From this strategic location, CLZ and ZAWA can monitor the area from the land, river and air.

Most of the year, the camp is a hub of activity, with a constant flow of ZAWA patrol officers moving to and from the valley, stopping in for fuel and rations.

CLZ facilitates meetings among community, safari tour operators and ZAWA, regularly accommodating area managers, wardens and rangers as well as researchers and directors of wildlife organizations that support CLZ programs.

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