Support anti-poaching project with a click (VIDEO)
“Following” Craig Boddington’s video collaboration project will help prevent poaching. The film tells the story of an anti-poaching unit in Mozambique that has arrested over 750 poachers, built a school, created 150 jobs, provides meat and water for hundreds of locals, and helped revive native game populations, including sable, buffalo, and zebra. With your help, the documentary can reach millions, aid the anti-poaching cause, and show the world how hunters are on the forefront of conservation.
Led by legendary hunter and outdoor journalist Colonel Craig Boddington, his wife Donna, and producer Conrad Evarts, the Anti-Poaching documentary shares the untold story of Zambeze Delta Safaris (ZDS) Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) operating in Coastal Mozambique. The ZDS-APU is staffed by the local population and funded by hunting dollars. Theirs is a model re-creatable in other areas of the world, and bound to be an example for many. They aim to demonstrate that poaching is preventable, and the team wishes to show the world how it works.
Boddington and his team were embedded with anti-poaching units to gather footage of the groups in action. Guns.com caught up with Craig and Donna Boddington at the 2016 NRA Annual Meeting in Louisville, and their passion for the project is undeniable. He warns though, the footage is raw, unpleasant at times, but necessary to shed light on the crude, dangerous, thoughtless, and inhumane practices of trophy and commercial meat poachers out solely for financial profit. Now the team has entered the short film into a competition and they will win with your support. The prize? Distribution into 100 million homes. This is a noble cause for hunters and conservationists alike, but perhaps the biggest gain is the potential positive press we as hunters can help generate.
Here’s How to Support the Project
Visit the Seed and Spark film competition website here. Check out the trailer. The Boddingtons have donated their time, talents, and plenty of legwork to get this project as far as it is. But what they really need right now, according to Evarts–and what won’t cost you a dime–is to visit the page and “Follow” the campaign. Logging in with Facebook is easiest, though it takes only a minute or two to create an account. They need at least 500 “follows” to advance, and a winner will be selected based on the quality of the story by a panel of judges.
Screenshot of how to “Follow” the campaign and help them reach their goal. (Image provided by Conrad Evarts).
Winning means distribution into 100 million homes, the majority of them non-hunter homes. According to Evarts, “these are the people that will decide the future of hunting, and this is the audience the film was made for.” If that’s not enough to motivate you to support the cause, visit the Zambeze Delta Anti Poaching facebook page where they post unedited photos from the front lines of the war on poachers, albeit not for the squeamish.
A member of one of the anti-poaching units with piles of crude wire snares and leg traps recovered from poaching camps. (Photo courtesy ZDS-APU ).
Poaching is a gruesome reality and those fighting against it are conservation heroes in their own rights. Supporting this documentary may be the best we hunters and gun owners can do from behind our screens. So check out the project, “follow” and share it, make your voice heard, and show the world the good we as a collective group of hunters can accomplish.
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