Bookings for Insimbi Legacy Projects AWAC weekends now open

The Insimbi Legacy Projects is excited to announce that they are ready to welcome back guests for Adventure With A Cause (AWAC) weekends, which are aimed at the protection and conservation of rhino.

This came after the President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that South Africa is moving down to alert Level 2 of the lockdown.

Insimbi Legacy Projects is an NPO situated in the Limpopo province. Their primary objective is to raise funds for anti-poaching rangers and rhino fodder in the winter months.

“Our journey with rhino started in 2003, in the days when rhino poaching was unheard of and our rhino roamed the bushveld blissfully unaware of what the future held for them,” explained Boksburg businesswoman and ambassador of the Insimbi Legacy Projects Sharon Janse van Rensburg.

“In 2014 rhino poaching reached a climax and more than 1 200 rhino were brutally killed for their horn.

“In the same year, our rhino became part of the statistic. We lost three rhino in one night, Insimbi (meaning steel in Zulu) and Shambula, who was heavily pregnant at the time.

“We had to think on our feet and move fast. Do we sell our rhino or do we put every single ounce of strength we had to fight back? We decided on the latter.

“Hence, the organisation ensured they had the best anti-poaching unit protecting rhino, invested in technology such as drones, collars, trail cameras and telemetry,” she added.

Adventure with a Cause (AWAC)

The organisation made a brave move by inviting the public to join them ‘boots on the ground’ as paying volunteers to create more movement and high visibility on the property.

“This has proved to be a very successful programme and like-minded people have joined us, which does not only helps financially (to pay the anti-poaching rangers) but also by being boots in the bush and having the extra eyes and ears on the ground.”

An AWAC weekend is normally over two nights and three days. The weekend consists of night patrols under a full moon, rhino monitoring, survival, navigation, amazing sunsets, delicious food and making new friends.

Insimbi also offers packages to corporates, which can adjusted to their needs.

“Rhino conservation and fund-raising is difficult in normal times and then the Covid-19 pandemic came and hit us like a rock on the head. No rhino weekends and no income meant increased risk of poaching and unstable times that put the rhino in a different safety category,” explained Janse van Rensburg.

“How do we protect our precious gentle giants in these difficult times? We’re grateful to say that we had so many generous donations from wonderful humans from all over the world.”

The ambassador emphasised that Insimbi will strictly follow Covid-19 guidelines set out by government.

For more information email sharon@insimbilegacyprojects.co.za, visit www.insimbilegacyprojects.co.za or follow them on Facebook.

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