Holgate leads ground-breaking journey through Lubombo Mountains

The journey has also been a humanitarian success with the continuation of Mashozi's Rite to Sight and the United Against Malaria campaign, culminating with an exciting event in Mozambique on World Malaria Day.

Raising awareness for rhino protection

Through the WESSA-supported expedition's link to rhino protection, the expedition travelled through a rectangle encompassing the Lubombo Range of Mountains, including the Kruger National Park and its nearby private reserves, across its fence line to the Rhino War Zone along the border with Mozambique in the east to include Parc Nacional do Limpopo and the private reserves down to Komati Poort, then south through the nature reserves of Swaziland and into northern KZN.

This block is the largest concentration of wild Rhino populations in the world and the Izintaba Zobombo Expedition was able to undertake the most comprehensive children's education survey ever undertaken linked to rhino conservation art and soccer with the help of WESSA and EnviroKids magazines. Never before have so many thousands of school children been given a voice to express how they feel about the rhino crisis.

WESSA, through its rhino initiative, is involved in a number of awareness-raising and educational campaigns. The EnviroKids initiative is one such campaign which strives to use this special-edition of EnviroKids as both a teaching aid and a tool in sensitising children to the value of rhinos and the plight of this charismatic species.

WESSA congratulates Holgate on this achievement and thanks him for his commitment to raising awareness of humanitarian and animal issues around the world.

For more information, go to www.wessa.org.za.