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The Elephant Charge is an annual off-road motorsport challenge held in the Zambian bush to raise money for conservation and wildlife education causes. |
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Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust was one of the fortunate beneficiaries of the Elephant Charge in 2011. We received K25, 500,000 on 23.1.12 towards the general running costs of our Conservation Education Outreach Programme in 2012.
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This year the Elephant Charge has been one of our principle donors contributing $17,250 to the running costs of our Nzou environmental education program.
Last year 2011, saw a sharp rise in the illegal ivory trade (reported by the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC). This, coupled with deteriorating governmental support for wildlife authorities in Zambia has resulted in a dramatic increase in the threat of poaching to rare and precious wildlife in the Lower Zambezi area.
Click here for full results of EC 2012.
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Click here to download the Google Earth tracks for the Elephant Charge 2012 teams.
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Elephant Charge 2012 raised an amazing K426million ($83,500) for conservation through education in Zambia.
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