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Donations

A portion of the proceeds of this book
will be donated to the Boucher Legacy
and the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

When South African cricketer Mark Boucher retired
from professional cricket, he devoted himself to wildlife
through the Boucher Legacy. The foundation aims to get eve-
ry living rhino onto a DNA database housed at South Africa’s
University of Pretoria. A full database of all rhinos’ DNA will
enable law enforcement to link the poaching of a particular
rhino carcass to a perpetrator, which greatly increases the
likelihood of poachers being convicted and brought to book.
Thanks to samples collected thus far, convicted rhino poach-
ers were serving a total of 300 years behind bars by mid
2020.
Education is key to our precious rhino. In many cultures, it is
believed that rhino horn is a cure for a vast array of ail-
ments. The Legacy runs a sustained education campaign to
refute these fallacies.
Pangolins are the most trafficked animal in the world and is
under serious threat of extinction. The Legacy works to de-
bunk myths regarding ‘medicinal properties’ of their scales
and has nursed numerous pangolins back to health after they
were confiscated from poachers.
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust was established more than 40
years ago and is best known for its Orphans' Project, the
first and most successful elephant orphan rescue and rehabil-
itation program in the world.
The Trust continues the work of Dame Daphne Sheldrick,
who founded the trust in 1977 to honour the legacy of her
husband David. The Sheldrick Trust continues to set remark-
able standards for the protection of wildlife and the preserva-
tion of habitats in East Africa, and for engaging humanity
worldwide in the conservation of Africa’s wildlife.