Bindi Irwin Starts Fundraiser for a Women Owned Wildlife Protection Organization
Bindi Irwin and her husband, Chandler Powell, have started a fundraiser to support The Black Mambas, an all-women anti-poaching initiative.
Activist and conservationist Bindi Irwin is using social media to support and showcase The Black Mambas, a South African based anti-poaching unit run completely by women to protect animals, fauna, and wildlife resources in their country.
Anti-poaching is the act of protecting public or privately owned pieces of land and the creatures within it from poachers, which are people who illegally trespass to hunt and capture wild animals.
Bindi, who helps run her late father’s wildlife conservation center, Australia Zoo, took to Instagram to explain what the powerful women-run unit does and why they need our help to protect the environment, it’s animals, and the people risking their lives to do so.
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The Black Mambas are not just protecting and patrolling South African land in an effort to keep their precious wildlife safe, but they are also educating their community about poaching and conservation through leading by example.
“By establishing community programs, they’re educating the future leaders of society – the children – on the importance of conservation and the ongoing effects of poaching. It’s these programs that help bring the community closer together to celebrate the power of knowledge and install a proud, empathetic and positive attitude towards wildlife and the environment,” Bindi explained in her caption about The Black Mambas.
While Bindi and Chandler’s efforts to fundraise for the female-fronted South African organization are coming out amid the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement, Australia Zoo’s Wildlife Warriors have actually been working with The Black Mambas since early 2019.
Just as Bindi wrote, we need to help “repair and improve the Black Mambas Anti-Poaching Unit Base, so they can continue their inspiring work, saving Africa’s iconic wildlife.”
