Vetpaw

[Zack Young]

Hey all,

I am a U.S. military veteran (I was a FMF Corpsman) and looking to join Vetpaw which is a veteran run organization with promotes and conducts ant-poaching operations throughout Africa and trains game rangers in patrolling, marksmanship, and field medicine (my field). I was wondering if anyone had any experience, interaction, or knowledge with these people. The only info I have is there website and I don't want to join an organization that realistically does more harm than good.
the website is http://vetpaw.org, any and all comments and info welcome

 

[petrusg]

Hi Zack

Just my two cents from experience in the reserves we hunt in South Africa.

In majority of the reserves that we operate in and an external anti-poaching company (profit or non-profit) is used, there tents to be poaching.

Those that tent to run internal anti-poaching patrols with full time employees tend have less to no poaching.

Now, I am not against the training of anti-poaching to those that can benefit from the type of skill transfer from a military veteran like yourself can offer, I am against the external anti-poaching companies that offer anti-poaching services.

Due to the nature of this thread, I can’t disclose the names where we see external vs internal.

I am sure you will get a mixture of answers and reactions from various people, mine is just based on our experience.

Looking forward to seeing other responses to your question.


Regards,
Adriaan

 

[tag soup]

There was quite a bit of commotion about that group earlier this year and lots of social media promotion. Then silence for a long time. http://www.militarytimes.com/story/...rofit-vetpaw-kicked-out-of-tanzania/70963970/