Nigel Kuhn

As a passionate photographer and photographic guide I realised there will not be a wilderness left if the current levels of poaching are left unchecked. So as well as running my media company Dusty Rhodes I started the Kariba Conservation Programme in Kariba, Zimbabwe.

An organisation which focusses on anti poaching, research and conservation.

My journey began whilst working with a friend in the security business to set up the Matusadona Anti Poaching Project (MAPP) in Kariba. Since those days in 2013 I have been working on a model to create a revenue stream for anti poaching operations in a small area of kariba and this is where we are now.

Working out of the Nyaminyami CAMPFIRE area we work with both Nyaminyami scouts as well as with Parks and Wildlife Authority of Zimbabwe. We carry out deployments and uplifts, perform spoor transects and track elephant to keep tabs on herd sizes and the make up of the herds. The revenue stream for operations is derived from a volunteer programme.

This programme gives volunteers the unique insight into the daily demands of an anti poaching unit as they actually perform snare sweeps, spoor transects and learn the art of tracking and other anti poaching skill sets.

I work professionally as a photographer, teach nature and wildlife photography in my photographic safari workshops and am able to combine this love with my anti poaching work. I am also contracted to teach wilderness survival skills and tracking at the Bear Grylls Survival Academy Africa in Victoria Falls. My life is a series of contracts with my daily grind being in the bush living a life many can only dream of.

See links to my pages and examples of my work:

https://www.facebook.com/nigel.kuhn1

Contact me at [email protected]

Phone: 0775 611 481