Rhino ops room gets boost
Rhino ops room becoming a reality thanks to donation
RESPONDING to a call on East Coast Radio’s Rhino Watch programme, Darren Wood of Africa PC in Durban has donated two computers to the ZAP-Wing (Zululand Anti-poaching Airwing) operations room being set up at their base in Hluhluwe.
On receiving the donation, ZAP-Wing leader Lawrence Munro said that although the ops room is still very much in the setting up stages, the computers will form an integral part of the administrative functions.
It is envisaged that the ops room will also be used as a meeting room for the planning of anti-poaching operations and the computers will be connected to a large television screen which will greatly assist in discussions where maps and diagrams can be easily shown to participants who willl not have to huddle around a lap-top computer.
ZAP-Wing serves all owners of rhino within their area of operation.
These areas include the private and public sector.
The only criteria used in developing the operational area was that the landowners must have rhino on their property.
The ops room is being set up to accommodate combined operations that will roll out in northern Zululand over the next few months.
‘These combined operations will pull in elements of the SAPS Airwing, Specialised SAPS units as well as facilitate the SANDF involvement up along the Mozambique border and then obviously the conservationists namely Ezemvelo, Inyathi APU and a whole multitude of private conservationists out there that are protecting their rhino and working together to stop this rhino poaching,’ says Munro.
Well done to Darren Wood for supporting this great effort in eradicating poachers from our country. We need more people like you, committed and dedicated to saving our wildlife, congratulations to ZAP for the difference they are making, perhaps the difference between survival and extinction.