damien mander

Explore " damien mander" with insightful episodes like "Damien Mander & The All Female Vegan Rangers: The Akashinga", "Episode 14 - The Vegan Sniper's Anti-Poaching Initiative | Damien Mander", "002 Damien Mander: The Story of a Soldier Turned Animal Activist", "A Brave New World- Akashinga with Damien Mander" and "Ground Zero for Rhino with Damien Mander" from podcasts like ""Principles of Change With Seb Alex", "SANUSPLANET Podcast", "The Sentient Media Podcast", "Our Wild World" and "Our Wild World"" and more!

Episodes (7)

Damien Mander & The All Female Vegan Rangers: The Akashinga

In the 7th episode of the Principles of Change podcast, I discuss the work of the International Anti Poaching Foundation with its founder, Damien Mander. Damien is a former Australian Royal Navy Clearance Diver and Special Operations military sniper who used his life savings and funds to start the International Anti Poaching Foundation, where we find the Akashinga: Africa's first armed, plant-based, all-women anti-poaching unit.

In Today's Episode:

Intro & Damien's Story
How the IAPF started
Do confrontations get violent?
Are all the rangers really Vegan?
How many animals have you saved?
What about demilitarisation?
How can people help?
Damien's Principles of Change

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Principles of Change With Seb Alex

en-usApril 07, 2022

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Episode 14 - The Vegan Sniper's Anti-Poaching Initiative | Damien Mander

Welcome to the SANUSPLANET Podcast!

Did you know, that exactly those ecosystems that balance our climate and make life on earth possible in the first place are under threat? If we do nothing and do not act sufficiently, millions of species risk extinction in our lifetime.

Many human interventions can damage ecosystems around the world, but poaching in particular threatens a number of species, even those protected in national parks or wildlife reserves. Poaching nowadays is usually done purely for profit, resulting in the population of many animals being drastically decimated. Poached animals and animal parts are sold illegally on the black market.

How do you feel when hearing that rhinos and elephants are about to go extinct? These species have long been the target of poaching, mainly for the horn of a rhino, as well as for the ivory of an elephant tusk, as those are fetching enormous sums on the black market.

In our new podcast episode of the SANUSPLANET Podcast, Maggy interviews the founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation IAPF, Damien Mander. Founded in 2009, this foundation has transformed a traditionally adversarial approach to conservation into an innovative, empowering and gender-sensitive model for protecting wildlife and habitats.

Damien's life change is a role model for Maggy, as his transformation highlights how much we humans can change our lives if only we care enough about the cause. Damien was an Australian Sniper for the Special Forces who became a vegan activist through an emotional connection with the animals of Africa.

An conversation between one of the most well-known anti-poaching activists in the world and Magdalena Gschnitzer.

You can support the IAPF! To do so, visit: www.iapf.org

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Have fun with this episode!

enSeptember 15, 2021

002 Damien Mander: The Story of a Soldier Turned Animal Activist

Sentient Media caught up with Damien Mander, founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, to talk about his work in Africa and how reliance on the meat industry is destroying our ability to protect wilderness. Damien Mander, aka The Vegan Snipper, founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, has been changing the way we protect our wildlife since 2009. In this interview, Sentient Media’s Executive Director, Ana Bradley, explores how women are leading change for Africa’s wildlife, the need for conservationists to champion plant-based living, and a typical day in the life of the Vegan Sniper.

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The Sentient Media Podcast

enMarch 05, 2021

A Brave New World- Akashinga with Damien Mander

Today’s program with Damien Mander, IAPF began on the day after Mugabe resigned and amidst jubilation in the streets of Harare as Zimbabwe swore in a new interim President. This shift is one of the most hopeful messages the world and conservation can look to that systemic change is possible. We picked up the conversation one week later to further discuss the evolution of conservation in a country that historically has depended upon income generated by the hunting concessions- land that is not within the national parks. As sport hunting declines dramatically, income streams dry up and the land and the people become ever more vulnerable. Alternative sources of income must be created or these areas will be lost, along with their rich biodiversity. With a willing government and expertise of IAPF, enter Akashinga: locally based, all female teams, provided the skills, training and employment to fill this gap in management, presence and patrols through these lands.

Our Wild World

en-usDecember 11, 2017

Ground Zero for Rhino with Damien Mander

In a world at war with wildlife, to conserve and protect rhino in critical habitat on the frontlines, the cost of peace often comes at the end of a barrel. Protecting rhino and poaching them is one of the most dangerous jobs on earth- lives literally hang in the balance. Between specially trained teams of rangers who have chosen at all costs to protect rhino, and those who would kill them because of the value we humans have proscribed to a few pounds of keratin. It all comes crashing together at ground zero: critical rhino habitat right up against impoverished communities, where international criminal cartels pull the puppet strings of desperate people. My guest Damien Mander of the International Antipoaching Foundation tells us like it is: the real costs both the financial and emotional toll of protecting one of our planets most enduring species. The IAPF has one mission: Rhino will not go extinct on their watch. iapf.org

Our Wild World

en-usFebruary 29, 2016

The Human Toll in the Wildlife Wars with Damien Mander

The illegal trafficking and exploitation of wildlife is now one of the world’s largest criminal industries, with repeated links to terrorism networks. The animals most difficult to protect are also high target species: elephant and rhino, which are being hunted to extinction by poachers who go to extreme lengths to kill them. Inspiring urgent political action toward safekeeping of the planet cannot be overstated, and this responsibility must transcend all levels of industry, business and society. But the reality of winning the hearts and minds of the people living directly on the frontlines of this war is critical, where both rangers and villagers daily risk their lives, direct action is a vital for successful conservation. Results there will only be accomplished by providing viable in situ alternatives to address poverty and daily realities found in the crosshairs on the thin green line where people and wildlife and money meet.

Our Wild World

en-usJanuary 25, 2016