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ZCTF Report
Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF)
February 08, 2009

Correction

With reference to our report dated 5th December 2008 titled "Charara new Year's Party", we stated that 2 girls were raped at the 2007 party after drugs were slipped into their drinks, one of whom had a bad reaction to the drug and almost died. We would like to clarify this statement. The girl who had a bad reaction to the drug was NOT one of the girls who was raped. This was a separate incident and we would like to sincerely apologize to the girl concerned if our erroneous statement has had any detrimental effect on her.

El Paso rhinos buy food for Tatenda

A big thank you to the El Paso Rhinos Hockey Team who have made it possible for us to travel to Johannesburg to collect another load of milk for Tatenda. Thanks also to Jacqui Clingman who paid for the game cubes and to Laureen Bertin for placing the orders.

We went to Imire Safari Ranch last weekend to deliver the food. Tatenda is now in the main game park with Shanu, a 4 year old female rhino and his lifelong friend, Hogwash the warthog. We drove around for quite some time looking for them before offloading the food.

We found them browsing happily under a tree and I decided to cut one of the bags of game cubes open and give Tatenda some because I know how much he loves them. I couldn't leave Shanu and Hogwash out because they also love the cubes.

I gave them a few handfuls and when I closed the back door of the car, Tatenda realized he wasn't getting any more and tried to charge me. The handler managed to control him but for a few moments, I was trapped between Tatenda and the car with no visible means of escape.

We then drove to the cottage in the game park to offload the milk and game cubes.

We would like to thank the following people who have very kindly assisted us in various ways:

Lawrence and Sandy King
John and Helen Buckle
Ann Johnson and the Quaker Concern for Animals
Charlie Thompson
Amanda Barrow
Tim Lukies
Bev Horton
Jan Winford
Stephanie Glover
Kathy Paul
Rosemary Wall
Dorian Richardson
Wolfe Peterson
Pete Shore
Rita Nichols
Andre Morkel

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