Asymmetric Operations Group

East African Counter Poaching Support - Please Donate & Share

The Asymmetric Operations Group (https://www.aog.vet/) has recently re-launched our campaign to support wildlife preservation efforts across East Africa through material and advisory support. Prior to COVID we had been actively building a support and advisory program in Tanzania however that was brought to an abrupt halt by the onslaught of the global pandemic. At that point we were forced to abandon our initial program and refocus on other academic and research projects. Today we need to rapidly rebuild our Counter Poaching project to save a homegrown, community-based organization in Nigeria that protects endangered animals daily. For the animals this is a no fail mission.

In the AOG re-building the Counter Poaching portion of our organization is critical to the success of our overall goal: Helping our former Warriors by providing a new "calling" and Tribe where they apply their unique skills to “wicked” global problems. This gives them purpose and focus while doing good in the world! This is critical to their individual, long term, well-being and health.

Thus, this Spring we are reentering the wildlife protection fight as we look to sponsor, and aid localized “Ranger” programs across Eastern Africa. This particular campaign is only the first! To do so we need your help now, and well into the future!

This first project is focused on the support and enhancement of a small community-based wildlife protection program in Kenya that recently lost their funding. We are in the process of providing the Mara Loita Community Rangers in Kenya with additional material support for basic gear and salaries to sustain current operations which requires an immediate minimum of $220, 000.00 for a year. This is simply to pay and maintain current levels of effort by the Rangers. We also need to raise an additional $310,000.00 to conduct an on-ground assessment and survey to determine the requirements for expansion of long-term operations, as well as those items required to make the Mara Loita Community Rangers more effective. To do this we intend to send a Team of experts, for a month, to fully look at all aspects of the operation to determine actual need for additional material support, capabilities and training, as well as to conduct extensive joint planning with the Rangers and their Community. Our intent is to leave one to two of our personnel behind embedded with the Rangers, as Advisors, for up to six months. Later we intend to build a cadre or regional advisors to remain constantly engaged with our Partners across the region.

All this requires funding and for that we need you!

https://www.aog.vet/donate

https://asymmetricoperationsgroup.betterworld.org/

https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/2813563