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2012Generously supported

the following major

donors:

Luangwa

ConservationCommunity Fund

Members: FlatdogCamp, Robin Pope Safari

Mfuwe Lodge & the Bus

Camp Company, Kafunta

Safaris, Remote Africa Safa

and Shenton Safaris.

SLCS Newsletter Edition 2. (April, May & June)

SLCS 10 KM FUN RUN 2012

THE RACE BEGINS..

The winner, Kachaba Susiku from Jumbe with footballers

Kalililo Kakonje and Davies Phiri.

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Note from Rachel McRobb

CEO SLCS

Welcome SLCS friends!Ive got to say the year is flying by and seems to go fasterwhen it is packed full of such a variety of activities. To start off on a cheerful note, we had a

fantastic annual Fun Run and Sports Day event on 30

th

June with our biggest turn out yet.Over 3000 people attended the sports day and we were lucky to be graced with players fromthe Zambia National Soccer Team who spiced up the event and took part in relays and

Madalas football matches. The event would not have been possible or as successful withoutthe support from the Elephant Charge, Proflight, Lusaka Backpackers and Chris Fenner, USAIDand SHARE II who donated all the tshirts, Personal Touch, Flatdogs Camp, Lion Camp, Norman

Carr Safaris, The SLCS team, Evans Graph and all his sports team and of course Honor Janza,Kalililo Kakonje and Davies Phiri from the Zambian National Soccer Team. We are alreadylooking forward to next years run.

In May, myself and some colleagues from Zambia, Mocambique, Tanzania, Namibia, SouthAfrica, Zimbabwe, West and Central Africa attended a bushmeat / snaring workshop in South

Africa hosted by Panthera. Experts in different fields gave presentations from differentcountries followed by a brain storming session on characteristics, drivers, impacts and possiblesolutions to the snaring and bush meat trade. The general consensus is that it is increasingcontinent wide and is if not curtailed will lead to massive wildlife and habitat losses. A followup work shop is planned for later in the year where hopefully decision makers will be present.

The past few months we have received visits from major donors and SLCS friends. JohnLemon from Painted Dog Inc. in Australia who funds our wild dog anti-snaring team visited usin May. Nolwenn Drouet from Awely in France funds our human wildlife conflict mitigationprogram also visited for a week in May. Carol and Steve Van Bruggen from Sacramento,California who founded the Africa Hope Fund and also fun SLCS anti-snaring work visited inMay and June. Its always great to be able to show people what we do and spend time with

everyone and we look forward to seeing them again later in the year and next year.

Our joint SLCS / ZCP aircraft is finally in the country, and should be Zambian registered in acouple of weeks. Thanks to Neil McGreev for flying it to Zambia for us.

More interesting news in the rest of this newsletter about different aspects of the project butbefore that we would like to express our deepest appreciation to all of our donors across theglobe and a special thanks to our most recent donors; Civil Society Environment Fund Zambia,Murray Katz from Canada, Dazzle Africa from Las and Sea World and Busch Gardens.

Enjoy the read.

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SLCS ANNUAL 10 KM FUN RUN 2012 IN PICTURES

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THE MESSAGE IS SIMPLE AND CLEAR. MOST OF OUR RECOVERED SNARE WIRE COMES

FROM ELECTRICAL SOURCES AND FROM WORKSHOP SOURCES SUCH WINCH CABLE AND

PONTOON CABLE. KEEP IT SAFE AND LOCKED UP SO MORE ANIMALS DO NOT END UP

LIKE THIS.

WIRE KILLS WILDLIFE, KEEP IT SECURE!!

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NEWSNAREWIREJEWELLERYFOR

SALEBYMULBERRYMONGOOSE

KATEWILSON

Wire snaring is one of the most devastating forms of

poaching in Zambia's Luangwa Valley, killing and injuring

many of the area's iconic wildlife species. With the purchase

of Mulberry Mongoose beautiful jewellery made from

recovered poachers' snares and snare wire cut free from

wounded animals in Zambia's Luangwa Valley you will be

supporting the anti-snaring efforts of Zambian conservation

organisations and protecting the wildlife. Your purchase of

Mulberry Mongoose's Snare Wire Jewellery directly

contributes to these efforts. Please contact

katewilsonjewellery@gmail.com and visit the website:

http://www.mulberrymongoose.com/snare-wire-range

African Safari &Yoga Retreat October 26th-31st,20

SLCS Trustee Carol Van Bruggen and her

husband Steve, whose foundation the

Africa Hope Fund have recently sponsored

two Uyoba Community school teachers to

attend teachers training college. Carol and

Steve are in Luangwa for about 6 weeks

and during this time help out SLCS where

they can and also contribute generously to

our anti-snaring programs.

Africa Hope Fund is hostingtheir first major fund raising event in

Sacramento California on Sept 23rd in

order to raise funds for conservation and

education projects in the South Luangwa

Valley.

Safari on the Riverwill be heldat the marina and home of Steve Kuhn and

Carol Van Bruggen-Kuhn and will feature

music, dance and the foods of Zambia.

Art work has been donated by several wel

known artists and textiles from Tribal

Textiles will be auctioned off. Carol and

Steve expect over 250 attendees and plan

to raise over $50,000 US at the event. Go

tohttp://SafariOnTheRiver.comfor more

information

Upcoming Fund Raising event

in California for all our US

based supporters

FUND RAISING EVENTS FOR SLCS

October 26th

31st

2012

For info. Contact Stacy Jamesfor more info.:702.332.1501email: bloomingvegas@yahoo.com

www. adafire.com

South Luangwa Yoga Retreat with Jada Fire

Proceedsgo towards

SLCS

Projects

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Update on Law Enforcement

support -Benson Kanyembo, SLCS

Operations Manager

Anti-poaching remains a challenge in South

Luangwa and the GMA during the dry season. With

76 ZAWA anti-poaching scouts deployed as escort

scouts on walking safaris, a large gap is left in the

law enforcement sector. As more and more people

flock for job opportunities in Mfuwe, the area continues to feel the impacts of an

increasing population including forest destruction, wildlife losses due to snaring,

increase landscape change from farming and so forth.

A recent combined law enforcement meeting was held in Mfuwe between

different regions including Southern, Eastern and Bangweulu Area Management

Units to find ways to combat poaching.

Our upcoming support of Malama CRB village scouts will also assist in protecting

the southern section of the park.

The CEO meets with Malama CRB to finalize a plan for support in Malama.

Table 1: SLCS supported patrol results April June 2012

Source: SLCS 2012

Month LP SP DP Snares Suspects Firearms Ammunition DR Elephant mortalities Ivory

April

May

Total

4

6

10

4

2

6

9

14

23

84

226

310

9

7

16

2

5

7

26

199

225

3

1

4

2

2

4

1

2

3

With genero

support from

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Visit from Program Director

Nolwenn Drouet

Awely has a new Program Director,

Nolwenn Drouet who is based in France

and has considerable experience

working in Africa and on human

wildlife conflict. Nolwenn visited us for

the first time and spent a week with us

in Luangwa getting to know the Rad

Caps team, meeting chilli farmers, chilli

blasters, owners of the new elephant

safe grain stores, meeting community

members who experience wildlife

conflicts on a regular basis and also

coming up with some great new ideas and programs with the team for this year.

Human Wildlife Conflict

Mitigation Work to Expand

In addition to our current work involving human

elephant conflict mitigation in Kakumbi, Nsefu

and Mkhanya Chiefdoms, we are extending our

work to a fourth Chiefdom this year. Malama

Chiefdom, on the border of South Luangwa

rarely gets any recognition or support and is an

important area facing all the same problems as

the other Chiefdoms.

In addition to setting up a wildlife conflictassessment and monitoring program, our chilli

farming program will be extended to Malama

and a coordinator will be hired to oversee these

activities.

Current area of HWC programs.

Expanding to Malama Chiefdom.

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Staunch supporter of three conservation projects in Luangwa (SLCS, Chipembele and Zambia carnivore

Program), John Lemon, Chairman of PDC and Geoff from SAVE foundation in Perth spent two weeks

with us in May. John and his wife Ange fund SLCSs wild dog anti-snaring team and have done so for the

past three years. John and Anges passion and hard work for the wildlife in Luangwa is greatly

appreciated. John and I also joined the Zambian Carnivore Program in Liuwa National Park to help with

wildebeest work for a week.

Leopard trapping

Two years ago a leopard collared by a research project in Luambe National Park crossed the river and

made his way to south Luangwa, settling in near Lion Camp and Kaingo. His collar needed to be removed

so plans for this started late last year. Efforts were made last year to locate and immobilize him with no

success, I did not even get a glimpse of him. This year we used a trap, got some bait, worked out his

movements and territory and built a platform in a tree with help from Lion Camp. Leopard trapping can

often takes weeks to be successful and we anticipated spending endless nights nearby waiting to hear

the trap shut. On night two we were lucky, he couldnt resist the bait and we were able to immobilize

him and take off his collar. Until next time, best wishes, Rachel & Benson.

Visit from Painted

Dog Inc Chairman

John Lemon