The Wild Bike Foundation is thrilled to announce a special raffle for a chance to win a custom painted, one-of-a-kind Specialized Tero-X Wild Bike. This initiative supports their target of deploying 50 e-bikes, in wilderness conservation projects, by the end of 2024.
Each raffle ticket costs R190, with 100% of proceeds funding these vital efforts. The raffle is open until the draw on World Conservation Day, July 28, 2024. Wild Bike raises funds to deploy and operate e-bikes in conservation areas around South Africa, to help with critical anti-poaching and conservation work. Not only are the bikes deployed with partner conservation projects, but they are maintained by Wild Bike to ensure their impact is sustainable.
The bikes accelerate the work our partners do, whether it’s to increase patrol distances, reduce fuel and maintenance costs, or sneak up silently on poachers.
Read here what Meiring Prinsloo, the Somkhanda reserve manager said about the impact of the bikes:
“Our guys used to do these patrols on foot, in remote areas of the park. In a normal patrol of 8 hours they would cover about 10 kilometres of fence line, but with the bikes, the guys are able to cover 40 kilometres in the same time. That is a huge gain for us.
Our fuel and maintenance costs are some of our biggest budget items, so any time we can save fuel and maintenance on a vehicle, it means we have more money for other things on the reserve.
We have a problem with snaring on the reserve, but in the area where the bikes have been working we have seen snaring almost stop overnight.
The major problem with snares is that if an endangered species gets snared, then we have to intervene at huge expense. If a Rhino is snared for example, it will cost us about R50 000 to get a chopper, and a vet, to dart the animal, remove the snare and treat the wound. That’s money we can’t budget for.”
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: www.wildbike.org/raffle
Contact: Devlin Wild Bike Foundation Email: devlin@wildbike.org Phone: +27837993003
