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DSC Foundation Grants Update 2022

It’s been another busy and extremely productive summer for the DSC Foundation. Fundraising efforts in support of our mission have already resulted in the approval and distribution of the foundation’s first round of grants earmarked to support the DSC mission of conservation education and advocacy.

In June, your foundation hosted its second Gala, and fundraiser attendees came from all points of the globe their generosity made a critical impact on our foundation’s ability to support the ever-important conservation tenet of our mission.

I want to highlight several of the conservation grants recently made by your DSC Foundation.

McCallum Safaris in Tanzania received a grant in support of their ongoing leopard study. This grant will provide both radio callers and game cameras that will continue to track the numbers, movement, and mortality of leopards over a vast range of country inhabited by this species.

Nyamazana Safaris received a foundation grant supporting anti-poaching teams patrolling some of Zimbabwe’s most critical game country. Namely the West Nicholson Lipani and Marula districts.

To bolster anti-poaching efforts and Cameroon’s critical forest and Savannah ecosystems, a foundation grant was made to Northern Operations Africa. The foundation grant, like the one that preceded it, will support the tremendous work being done by this outfitter in the remote and vulnerable game fields of Cameroon.

Outfitter Adam Clements Safaris will be supported by a foundation grant to assist with anti-poaching programs currently in place in Tanzania’s Moyawasi Game Reserve. Portions of this grant will go towards purchasing a helicopter or airplane to pinpoint poaching threats and assist Ranger contact teams on the ground.

Back in Zimbabwe, another grant will assist the Save Valley Conservancy Fund in purchasing a 4×4 off-road vehicle and two motorcycles to be used by their Fast Response anti-poaching Team.

South Africa’s famous Kruger National Park and, in particular, the park’s threatened rhino herd will receive much-needed protection through a generous Foundation Grant to the Eco Defense Group. This highly effective group of quiet professionals operates within the Kruger Park Corridor. Their history of success in both poacher contacts and arrests makes this one of the foundation’s most effective grants.

Here in North America, a Foundation Grant to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation will assist with an exciting program to assess the natural recolonization of black bears in West Texas. This grant will provide funding for ongoing research to develop a management strategy to maximize the population growth of this species through natural recolonization into their former range.

Finally, a grant in New Mexico will help the historic Philmont Scout Ranch with land management work aimed at thinning forest growth and ladder fuel reduction to promote forest health and watershed health, both of which help reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire events.

Even as these DSC Foundation grants are being put into action, your foundation board is busy working on the next series of missions supporting grants and be assured we will continue to provide you with updates on future grants. If you want more information on the DSC Foundation’s great work, please visit our website.

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