In September 2018 we are climbing Mount Meru & Mount Kilimanjaro back to back, in a Twin Peak Challenge, to raise money for two conservation charities: Wild Survivors and PAMS Foundation. 

Mount Meru and Kili are both dormant volcanoes. Mount kililmanjaro is Africa's tallest mountain, standing at 5895 metres (19340 feet) tall, and boasts a challenging 5 different climates during the climb, from Savannah, Rainforest to Arctic conditions. Mount Meru is a more modest 4565 metres (14,978 feet) tall and is the 2nd tallest mountain in Tanzania and the 4th tallest mountain in Africa.

Why support us to support these two charities?

One elephant is slaughtered every 15 minutes in Africa and Tanzania lost over 60% of it's elephants between 2009 and 2015 alone during a spike in poaching.

Elephants are killed not only by poachers for their valuable Ivory tusks, but also by communities protecting their valuable crops from elephants seeking food and trampling crops during migration, creating  what is known as "Human-Elephant Conflict". 

The elephants' migration corridors have been interrupted by the cultivation of land by farmers, to supply food and economic stability to their families. 

When rural communities come face to face with herds of elephants trampling & eating their crops,  the encounters do not end well for either party, and there are often fatalities on both sides.

Over 123,000 elephants have been slaughtered in the last 3 years.

Wild Survivors uses evidence from research done by Dr Lucy King that showed that ELEPHANTS ARE SCARED OF BEES! - who knew??!! - and seeks to establish win-win initiatives to protect elephants from poachers and human-elephant conflict. 

Wild Survivors supports Tanzanian communities to establish sustainable projects, whereby communities are trained in the keeping of bees as a deterrent to elephants. Additionally, they are trained in the business of honey and beeswax trade, they are also trained and supplied with specially designed beehive perimeter fences, sourced from sustainabale local materials.  

The communities can then earn money from sales of elephant-freindly honey and beeswax, as well as their untrampled crops! 

So protecting both the elephant herds and maintaining bee populations, which are, of course, essential pollinators! 

PAMS Foundation was established in 2006 and helps sustain and conserve biodiversity, wilderness, habitats and ecological processes through actions that benefit nature and communities. - ie win-win projects like Wild Survivors' Bee-Fence project! 

Beekeeping and Wildlife Ranger training by Wild Survivors and PAMS help support communities create successful sustainable economies.

Our climb will be in honour of Wayne Lotter, co-founder of PAMS Foundation, set up in 2006. He was an outstanding pioneer in helping save Africa's elephants, and was instrumental in disrupting international ivory-trafficking networks. He received multiple death threats, and was shot dead in Tanzania in August 2017 by an unidentified gunman. 

No amount is too small - and by supporting us to support these 2 amazing charities you will be helping save both elephants and bees for future generations.

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