CONSERVATION NEWS
Nsefu Wildlife at Fido Fest 2022!
We had a great time at this event!
The Nsefu Wildlife team came out on Saturday, February 26th to take part in Fido Fest 2022. We had a great time watching all the different kinds of dogs at the event as well talking with everyone who visited our booth!
Check out the event photos below.
Alpine Stagecoach Lion's Valentine's Shopping Bazaar
We had a great time at the Alpine Stagecoach Lion's Valentine's Shopping Bazaar!
Thank you to everyone that came out to the Alpine Stagecoach Lion's Valentine's Shopping Bazaar! It was great to meet everyone at the beautiful event!
Nsefu Wildlife distributes donated clothing
Working together, we can make a difference!
On January 14th, the Nsefu Wildlife team and Community Resource Board members helped to distribute clothing to community members and school children with special needs.
We'd like to thank Victory and David Wallace from Zikomo Safari for their support of these important programs.
Learn more about Zikomo Safari: https://www.zikomosafari.com/
Borehole Post Repair Meeting & Discussion
Nsefu Wildlife working with the community to solve problems.
The Nsefu Wildlife team members repaired the local watering borehole that had recently trapped a baby elephant. We fortunately were able to rescue the baby elephant, read the full story HERE!
We're hoping to raise funds to help with drilling a second borehole for the village and leave the older borehole for wildlife.
The older watering borehole, which is one kilometer from the village, would be dug out more so that wildlife can more easily access it. This action will help to reduce human-elephant conflict.
We would like to come to an official agreement with the village soon, so that we can begin drilling the borehole as soon as the funds are available. In return for the new borehole, we're going to require that the villagers report any suspicious poacher activity and also not to obtain water from the older borehole, so animals can access it without conflict.
The Nsefu Wildlife Soccer Tournament
The Nsefu Wildlife Conservation Tournament was a success!
SUMMARY OF NSEFU TOURNAMENT 2021.
The tournament was organized and sponsored by Nsefu Wildlife Conservation Foundation and Five Star Communications for teams within Nsefu Chiefdom.
6 teams participated in the Tournament namely:
Dushambe fc.
Chabwera fc.
Chitunda fc.
Leopard fc.
Katapila fc.
Chilambo fc.
To avoid teams covering long distances, they were put in two groups A and B meaning those teams who were close to each other played in the same group and each group comprised of three teams.
Each group after play off, only two best teams came out from each group meaning the winner of group A played runners up of group B.
Chitunda and Leopard played the semi finals which Leopard won 1 nil.
The finals where played by Chabwera fc and Dushanbe fc and after playing 90 plus minutes, they drew 1:1.
It ended up in penalty shoot outs.
Chabwera fc won through penalties after scoring 4 out of 5 beating their rivals who scored 2 out of 5.
Chabwera fc were crown champions of Nsefu Tournament for 2021.
AWARDS AND PRIZES.
The tournament had $305 given to me by Madam Vic translating to K5000
It was broken down as follows:
Chabwera 1st prize=K600
Dushanbe fc 2nd prize K500
Leopard fc 3rd prize K400
Chitunda fc K350
Chilambo fc K300
Katapila fc K300.
Total for teams=K2450
The Tournament had 4 Referees for officiating the whole Tournament and each one was given K200 (meaning K800) was spent on Referees.
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS.
This simply means players who were exceptionally good in the following areas:
Top scorer got K100.
Most disciplined player got K100
Player of the Tournament got K100
Just on prizes, referees and individual awards K3550.
5000-3550=1450.
On refreshments and snacks K1450 was spent.
Soccer clothes and goal posts were given to all participating teams without exclusion.
It's unfortunate that the games were played in heavy rains and that disturbed us from capturing the live streams of the games and clear pictures.
All teams that participated walked away with money and soccer clothes just to make them have a feel of the tournament.
We had invited all stakeholders within Nsefu and lectures on conservation were given and explained more about Nsefu Conservation, its goals and what we have done and continue to do for the benefits of the community.
Thanks for the money which made our Tournament a success. Nsefu is indeed on map and your usual passion for wildlife has made Nsefu a formidable anti poaching force.