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Every 8 hours an endangered RHINO is cut down by poachers for a horn only they need; a statistic that is both shameful and alarming. VETPAW is on the FRONT LINES in South Africa, utilizing the skills of U.S. Veterans to help protect them 24/7.  To HELP our MISSION,  we have 18 VETPAW team member t-shirts that we have made available. Donate any amount with an 8 in it ($18, $88, $108 etc) and we will select 18 donors who will receive a Team Member t-shirt like you see here.  Please DONATE today and become an honorary VETPAW team member.  VETPAW is succeeding in helping to regenerate the rhino population in South Africa, but WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU!



VETPAW is a 501 c(3) non profit. All donations are tax deductible. For more info please visit vetpaw.org.

This THANKSGIVING, VETPAW is grateful to all our supporters who enable us to put U.S. VETERANS to work protecting rhinos, elephants and other endangered animals in South Africa, day after day.  If YOU are GRATEFUL for the sacrifice our Veterans make over the holidays to protect these animals, please HELP US curtail the POACHING EPIDEMIC by putting more VETS ON THE GROUND to assist in THE FIGHT TO STOP THE KILLING OF RHINOS AND ELEPHANTS. 

This Thanksgiving and Christmas WE NEED YOUR HELP!  It costs VETPAW about $25,000 to train, equip and support a Post 9-11 Veteran to participate in protecting endangered rhinos, elephants and other African animals for three months and help stop the killing!   



Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit who's tax-deductible mission is to protect endangered wildlife utilizing the skills of Post 9-11 Veterans. We give veterans meaningful employment while re-purposing their taxpayer funded skills to combat criminal poaching in Africa.  The need for more VETPAW members is greater than ever.

VETPAW is one of the most unique conservation efforts in the world. Every day, Veterans from various military backgrounds work tirelessly to help our organization create a safe haven for our growing rhino "crashes."  At the same time our organization gives those who have sacrificed for our freedom an opportunity to learn new skills in the world of critical conservation. 



VETPAW has been successfully protecting rhinos and elephants for two years now at our base in Africa. We couldn't be more proud of this achievements and all the supporters and followers who have helped us do this important work.  To respond to the growing need in the battle against poachers, we created a candidate selection course and the response was overwhelming and inspiring!  

VETPAW recruits from around the country came together for training, evaluation and education about what it takes to deploy to Africa.  These brave men and women are ANSWERING THE CALL. They are ready to go so we need you to SUPPORT THEIR MISSION! 

FOR AS LITTLE AS $10 you can help send a U.S. Veteran to Africa to protect the world's endangered animals.  Please make a donation on behalf of a Veteran you know and love. 



Any tax deductible donation you make is awesome... However, for a donation of $250.00 or more you will receive a free VETPAW Team Cap! 



All you have to do is donate $250.00 or more via this gofundme and allow 4-6 weeks for delivery for the address you provide us via email. If you decline the cap to help us save costs, let us know!  



Again, VETPAW would not be the success it is today without all the help our supporters and new fans have given us over the last two years. Because of this we are expanding our base of operations, putting more veterans to work protecting African wildlife and transitioning from endangered animal protection to actual conservation!  Our mission is to prove that U.S. Veterans have the heart, knowledge and skills to turn the tide against the wanton destruction of rhinos and elephants and help stop the poaching of these amazing animals. 

Former U.S.M.C and Navy Cross Recipient, Gaven Eier (VETPAW team member)



One of the rhinos VETPAW protects every day! 


Ryan Tate, the co-founder and President of VETPAW is an ex-Marine who decided he wanted to do something about the wanton slaughter of these beautiful animals. As a veteran, he knew he had the knowledge and experience to follow his vision to help other veterans do the same work and help the international effort to stop the slaughter of rhinos and elephants.  



VIDEO:    A THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS FROM RYAN! 

VETPAW.org (Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife) employs experienced combat, Post 9-11,  U.S. Veterans with the skills they honed on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to work with local law enforcement and other park rangers to help turn the tide against the illegal slaughter of elephants and rhinos, every day.  

For more info, please visit us at vetpaw.org and sign up to be a member!   http://vetpaw.org/vetpaw-contact/ 

THE LATEST REPORT 
of the numbers of rhinos killed in South Africa in the last decade is dire.  Kruger National Park, one of the jewels of Africa, had a 65% INCREASE in the loss of black and white rhino killed by poachers over the last nine years.

This is tragic, heart-wrenching news.

ENDANGERED BLACK AND WHITE RHINOS
are being killed by criminal poaching gangs so their horns can be chopped off and sold to syndicates that turn the keratin (the same compound as your fingernails) into powder or trinkets to be sold in illegal markets in Southeast Asia. These amazing animals, on the cusp of vanishing without our help, are continually threatened by human greed. Without people like you, their survival on planet earth is in peril. 

DON'T GIVE UP HOPE! 
VETPAW, Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife has been fighting the scourge of poaching on the ground in South Africa for the last five years.


TODAY we assist local park rangers and reserve owners on the Eastern Cape of South Africa protect their endangered rhinos and elephants with techniques learned from our service in the U.S. military.  

OUR POST 9-11 VETERANS
run and operate a unique organization that utilizes veteran’s valuable taxpayer-funded skills to assist veterinarians, conservationists, local park rangers, and law enforcement to help stop the killing of these innocent animals.
EVERY DAY,
our Veteran team members help secure the reserve we work on and support the local communities and staff they rely on. We make sure the rhinos, elephants, and other animals remain unharmed by criminal poachers. Our methods help ensure their longevity and chances of breeding to help re-populate their decimated numbers. VETPAW changes the lives of our veterans by giving them gainful employment that leads to training in the world of endangered species conservation. 


RISE WITH US
and other like-minded people around the world and DONATE to support a veteran standing guard over a species that is no match for human avarice and greed. VETPAW has helped create a safe haven for our team members and the animals they protect a chance to thrive.


OUR BABIES 
born in 2019 and 2020 are thriving!  Their parents came from other reserves that were under threat. VETPAW helped relocate them to our protected reserve and they interacted with our original crash and nature took its course.  This is our hope for the future and we ask you to join us in helping protect them and grow their numbers back. 


VETPAW and the reserve we work with have committed to increasing the number of Southern black and white rhinos we protect to have a positive impact against the poaching crisis.


WITH YOUR HELP we can put more VETPAW TEAM MEMBERS on the ground and expand our mission to other impacted areas where animals and babies like these are threatened.  FOR AS LITTLE AS $10.00 YOU CAN HELP OUR FIGHT!

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

Please help support a U.S. Veteran in the field with a donation NOW.

Our team of veterans has selflessly committed to staying in Africa to protect wildlife through the COVID-19 pandemic. They've sacrificed time with their families and loved ones to ensure the safety of endangered wildlife and to support local developing communities.

Please DONATE to help them know you are RISING WITH US and making a difference right now! 

A special video thank you from Founder and President of VETPAW, Ryan Tate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTaWdbb9iTg

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 

VETPAW.org (Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife) is a U.S. based 501 c(3) non-profit that employs experienced combat, post 9-11 Veterans to work with local law enforcement, conservationists, and wildlife veterinarians to help turn the tide against the illegal slaughter of elephants and rhinos every day. 

For more info, please visit us at vetpaw.org and sign up to be a member.
https://vetpaw.org/

You can also help support us monthly by becoming a recurring donor and receive this limited edition Operation Rhino Rise Team Cap! 

Our NEW RHINO needs your help to protect him and the other RHINOS we defend in South Africa right now! 

This magnificent bull rhinoceros is the last of 50 that lived on a nearby reserve that has been decimated by criminal poaching. He is the lone survivor, stuck alone in a small corral for his own protection against poachers.  His owner feared for his life and frankly, without intervention, his days were numbered.  As powerful as he is, he is no match for a poacher's AK-47 and hatchet.

RHINOS SHOULDN'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.  But thanks to the generous assistance of Tim Sykes, VETPAW was able to move him to the reserve we protect, joining the other rhinos we defend every day...  For the first time in a long time he is once again roaming free and ready to rumble! 

See him released here! 

But VETPAW NEEDS YOUR HELP TO KEEP HIM THRIVING.

Because of the drought here in South Africa, we have to supplement-feed him and all the other rhino with Lucern (alfalfa) for the next few months.We need your help to ensure he and the other big greys have enough feed to get them through winter. Also because we are  expanding the number of rhinos we defend we need to expand the team of Veterans and resources we utilize to protect them. 

We NEED YOUR HELP NOW to cover the rhino's:

-- VETERINARY CARE

-- SUPPLEMENT FEEDING (due to drought)

-- MONITORING AND PROTECTION EQUIPMENT

-- DAILY PROTECTION


For AS LITTLE AS $10 YOU CAN HELP a U.S. Veteran protect this rhino and the other endangered animals we defend every day and get a tax deduction.

VETPAW is now helping regenerate the rhino population in Africa as we make sure our new bull and his fellow rhinos are safe and protected from criminal poachers.

Please donate and share this campaign to help Veterans protect endangered wildlife and change their lives by giving them a new purpose... Combating the wanton slaughter of these iconic animals. We are looking forward to our new big rhino living out the rest of his life peacefully. Please help us make sure that happens. Thank you!

VETPAW (Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife) is a U.S. 501 c 3 non-profit dedicated group of U.S. Combat Veterans committed to stopping the criminal slaughter of rhino and elephant in Africa. VETPAW employs experienced combat, Post 9-11, U.S. Veterans with the skills they honed on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, whilst serving their country, to protect wildlife from poaching as well as training and assisting local park rangers.

It's Tim Sykes 37th birthday and in honor of that occasion he wants you to help him raise $37k  for Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife (VETPAW)

Tim and some of his friends recently visited VETPAW's counter poaching operations in South Africa and had the experience of a lifetime.  Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife, a 501 c(3) non profit utilizes the skills of U.S. post 9-11 Veterans to protect endangered rhino and elephants against poaching, was honored to have Tim and his friends with us and value his great support.



That's why for his birthday, Tim is asking you to donate to VETPAW and help those who have served their country protect these amazing animals from being killed by ruthless poachers for their horns and ivory. 

Your donation will go directly to helping VETPAW's missions in South Africa by putting experienced veterans on the ground to help protect these innocent animals from being killed for their horns or ivory, every single day.

We could not do what we do without the support of you and incredible people like Tim Sykes! So thank you for donating! And happy birthday Tim! 



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Thank you!