Every day, our task team mission out into the bush fully equipped and fully armed to prevent our rhinos from dying. Going into the bush day or night is not a safe job, they are risking their lives walking the same
paths as dangerous game such as lion and elephants, not to mention armed poachers. Our team do many things for the rhino owners in our
area such as foot patrols, vehicle patrols, presenc
e patrols, road blocks and observation posts. Presence patrols are very important for anti-poaching, it shows the poacher we are guarding the reserve and they have a much higher chance of getting caught. The Protrack Rhino Task Team was created thanks to Vincent Barkas, Founder of Protrack Anti-Poaching Unit. With the rhino poaching figures climbing higher, Vincent knew that being behind the fence
lines was not enough to win this war. We needed teams on the roads and a team dedicated to obtaining vital
information about the poachers. Protrack could see there was no way they could fund these kind of operations using profits from Protrack. Protrack realised the only way to make Vincent's idea a reality was by making the team and Non-profit Organisation and raising fund to run the team. The task team are used as reaction team and hot line for any Rhino
incidents in our area. We are the only team that are fully operational for all
reserves in our area and have great support and trust from our local SAPS (South African Police Service) and the community. Our Anti Poachers are fully trained, fully armed and run 24hours a day. We are the only NPO that have a fantastic Intel and investigation team as well as great connections in the anti poaching industry including SANPARKS. All of our donations go directly towards the running costs of our team who are preventing rhino poaching and crime 24hours a day. Our team have Protrack Anti-Poaching unit as a big brother, Protrack have 25 years of anti-poaching experience and are the largest and first ever private anti-poaching unit in South Africa. The knowledge and expertise they have given to us and are still giving to us every day is invaluable.
