iapf

Explore " iapf" with insightful episodes like "Damien Mander On The Reality Of Poaching & Winning Hearts & Minds", "Damien Mander & The All Female Vegan Rangers: The Akashinga", "Episode 147: Damien Mander & Defending What's Right", "Extinction Countdown: RHINO A Round Table Discussion" and "The Human Toll in the Wildlife Wars with Damien Mander" from podcasts like ""The Plant Paradigm", "Principles of Change With Seb Alex", "Eat Green Make Green Podcast", "Our Wild World" and "Our Wild World"" and more!

Episodes (6)

Damien Mander On The Reality Of Poaching & Winning Hearts & Minds

"We're quick to try and find bandaid solutions to problems we face, while ignoring a solution that's spent the last 5 billion years evolving, and that is nature. It's the best regulating system we have on this planet."

Today’s conversation is with Damien Mander. Damien is an activist and founder of the International Anti Poaching Foundation. He has a unique background in that he is a former Australian Royal Navy clearance diver and special ops military sniper. His work has been featured on The Guardian, ABC, National Geographic, Forbes, The Game Changers and was the winner of the 2019 Winsome Constance Kindness Gold Medal, a prestigious international recognition for services to animals and humanity.

Video version: https://youtu.be/7Tzylk94WTI

The key topics in today's episode:
03:30 - Who is Damien Mander
06:30 - Different types of poaching
09:00 - How poaching works
12:00 - Impacting local communities
15:00 - Human-animal conflict
18:00 - Having hope
20:30 - The reduction of poaching
29:00 - Conservation on a global scale
35:00 - Fully plant based Akashinga rangers
40:00 - How dangerous is being a ranger
42:00 - Being vegan is "not manly"
48:00 - Becoming a ranger
50:00 - Words of wisdom

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Website | https://www.iapf.org/
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/int.anti.poaching.foundation/
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/damien_mander/
LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/damienmander/

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The Plant Paradigm

en-auSeptember 04, 2022

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 147: Damien Mander & Defending What's Right

“If you’re an alpha, why would you want to kill something that can’t defend itself? Or even worse, why would you want to pay someone else to do that for you?”

On this week’s episode of the Eat Green Make Green Podcast I sit down with the legendary Damien Mander. Damien is a former special operations sniper for the Australian Defense Force who did 12 tours to Iraq in the years following September 11th. In 2009, after a trip to Africa, Damien liquidated his life saving to found the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, which now protects over 20 million acres of African wilderness. We talk about what led Damien to the military as a young man, what he learned from his time in Iraq, when he decided to stop exploiting and start protecting animals, why he founded the IAPF and what they’ve done over the past decade, why he formed the first ever all-women anti-poaching unit Akashinga, why empowering women is the greatest force for positive change in the world today, why removing animals from his diet was the best decision of his life, why real alpha males protect the vulnerable, and how you can support the IAPF. Recently featured in James Cameron’s Game Changers, Damien is truly making kindness and respect for all, badass.

Show Notes

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Extinction Countdown: RHINO A Round Table Discussion

Extinction Countdown: RHINO A Round Table Discussion CITES CoP17 ran high with emotions, politics and decisions of magnitude. Yes or No vote to legalize or ban trade in rhino horn. Pro and anti- trade stakeholders of politicians, breeders, conservationists, scientists, and NGOs riding on the decision. “No Trade”. Now, just four months on, the South African Dept. of Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa formally announces intention to delist S.A’s Eastern Black Rhino, ostensibly to open up a legal trade in horn. Today’s round-table discussion is right on the crosshairs of our history: Witnessing CITES play while the clock counts down to extinction of the species in the wild. My guests Lorinda Hern, Rhino Rescue Project innovators of horn infusion; Loraine Liebenberg, Save Our Rhino the first and largest comprehensive rhino social media hub; journalist Jamie Joseph Saving the Wild on corruption, politics, power and crime impacts the legal justice system; and Damien Mander, IAPF

Our Wild World

en-usFebruary 20, 2017

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