Akashinga: Hunt My Animals and I’ll Catch You

Akashinga

Zimbabwe’s armed female anti-poaching unit protects one of Africa’s biggest elephant populations.

Action Opportunity…

Find out more about this community-driven conservation model empowering disadvantaged women to restore and manage large networks of wilderness areas as an alternate economic model to trophy hunting.

Filmmaker: Charlotte Pamment

Running Time: 4 mins

Language: English

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Charlotte Pamment is a filmmaker and journalist with the BBC. She focuses on the environment and conservation. This past year, Charlotte has reported on deforestation in Poland’s Bialowezia forest, plastic pollution in the Arctic, illegal fishing off the West coast of Africa and Zimbabwe’s all-female anti-poaching unit. She is currently working on a film about rainforest destruction in Indonesia.