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SFW Conservation Wildlife conservation nonprofit training rangers, educating youth, and empowering communities.

SFW's mission is to save some of the world's most endangered wildlife by training and supporting wildlife rangers, empowering local communities, and supporting our local partners and their conservation projects and initiatives. We believe if you’re on planet Earth, you have a role to play in combating our environmental crisis.

You’re not supposed to find a heart inside a horn. But there it was.We’ve been on the ground for a lot of these operatio...
09/18/2026

You’re not supposed to find a heart inside a horn. But there it was.

We’ve been on the ground for a lot of these operations, the kind that only happen when a population is under threat severe enough that removing the horn is really the only way to buy them time. There’s nothing glamorous about this work. It’s not a moment for anyone’s image. It’s survival, plain and simple.

When his horn was trimmed, this is what was waiting inside. Almost a perfect heart.

Maybe it means nothing. Or maybe it’s a reminder of what’s actually at stake, for the rhino, and for the people on this continent losing just as much to the same crisis. Poaching isn’t just erasing a species. It’s hollowing out a home.

AIR SHADOW - Shadow has seniority. Jack has enthusiasm. Kora has won the race but somehow still thinks everyone’s playin...
09/13/2026

AIR SHADOW -

Shadow has seniority. Jack has enthusiasm. Kora has won the race but somehow still thinks everyone’s playing together.
-politics

09/10/2026

In many regions, it’s a complete extermination.

Greed, poverty, demand and weak leadership = The Perfect
Storm.

At this moment, there are hundreds of thousands of these traps sitting in the bush across Africa.

They are placed on paths wildlife frequently use leading to a food or water source, predators are often baited, and in many places, wildlife is simply pushed or herded into them.

No plan, care or understanding for tomorrow.
Be the change.

09/10/2026

In many regions, it’s a complete extermination.

Greed, poverty, demand and weak leadership = The Perfect Storm.

At this moment, there are hundreds of thousands of these traps sitting in the bush across Africa.

They are placed on paths wildlife frequently use leading to a food or water source, predators are often baited, and in many places, wildlife is simply pushed or herded into them.

No plan, care or understanding for tomorrow.

Be the change.

09/06/2026

CONSERVATION EDUCATION Capevulturenaturereserve

Today we got invited by the Cape Vulture Trust to show a group of local kids what we actually do, and honestly this is one of my favorite parts of the job that nobody really sees.

We focused on the dogs because that’s something everyone can relate to, but what most people don’t get, even a lot of you watching, is how much actually goes into working with these animals. We grew up around dogs our whole lives so we forget not everyone knows how smart and capable they really are, or how to even read them.

Some of these kids started off scared out of their minds. By the end they were taking pictures and videos with the dogs like they’d known them forever.

That’s the whole point. Once kids get how amazing dogs are, it changes how they think about every animal. And maybe for one or two of them, this turns into something bigger down the road.

Days like this matter more than people think.

08/30/2026

A FUNDRAISER THANK YOU 🙏

This started in Rockland County. Not in some office, not in some boardroom. It started with the people back home who believed in it before it was anything, and the ones who showed up in person for it, no matter how far they had to travel.

This past July we stood on that same ground again for our 5th Annual Conservation Golf Outing, and every ranger trained, every snare pulled, every animal saved traces back to this community.

The biggest change in this world rarely starts with the biggest crowd. It starts with the ones who show up for you first, and keep showing up.

This one’s for Rockland County.

Edited by Kirsty du Toit

08/24/2026

Millions of people live right next to one of the richest wildlife ecosystems on earth. Most will never see it. Not because they don’t care. Because the system was never built for them to.

When people are kept poor and uneducated, the ones benefiting from that stay right where they are, and everyone else pays for it. Families keep growing faster than opportunity does. The land pays. The wildlife pays. This is the real problem.

This is a kid seeing an elephant for the first time. This is what we’re fighting for. This is why we support the work of the GCC

📸 Mbhoni Colbert Mzamani

To honor a good man, friend, and his unwavering commitment to our wild world. Here’s to you, our friend: - Always making...
08/14/2026

To honor a good man, friend, and his unwavering commitment to our wild world.
Here’s to you, our friend:

- Always making sure our permits we needed are in place
- Always making sure when we are gone knowing he will be there if we need anything in a moments notice
- Always jumping straight into the action
- Always being eager to learn
- Always creating a safe environment for our guests
- You’re relentless passion for wildlife, geography, art and this goes on
-Your humor when you weren’t even aware you were being hilarious.

Our favorite and most of all, always ending just about every conversation with reminding us that we are all a team and need to support one another.

Hats off today to a good man. He will certainly be remembered by his unwavering commitment to this space, and personally… from our organization - drawers full of gifts from him.

Glad to have had you in our lives, mate. You will be missed.
RIP

08/10/2026

LEOPARD DETECTION 🐆

Shadow’s on the ground here, with John — her K9 handler, representing SFW Conservation — and Ali Aliénor a K9 handler and wildlife biologist in her own right. Together, they’re testing whether detection work like this can help us understand leopard movement in the region, with the goal of reducing the road accidents that are taking their lives.

We’re teaming up with the Ingwe Research Program on this pilot who is supporting this work in the region. This is very early days and very much a test. We don’t know yet what it’s going to show us, but we wanted to bring you along for the process instead of just the results.

Grateful to Ingwe Leopard Research Program for funding this project and making it possible to even ask the question.

More to come as we learn.

08/09/2026

A normal Friday running a conservation charity.

“Can you talk?” - Debbie Coetzee 🐾

“Yeah just spread eagle holding a generator and compressor in place so it doesn’t fall out the Land Rover, whatsup?” 🤠
John Garcia

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