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Ep. 733: Dispatches from Africa - Anti-Poaching With A Side Of Black Mamba

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Joash Vomo, Executive Director of the Robin Hurt Wildlife Foundation and Anti-Poaching & Community Coordinator.

Topics Discussed: Buy a raffle ticket for the chance to win TRCP’s annual turkey hunt with Steve and Jani; subsistence poaching vs. selling poached game meat on the black market; snares big enough to catch a cape buffalo; homemade muzzle loaders; the punishment for poaching a giraffe, Tanzania’s national animal; how a poacher becomes an anti-poacher; community-based conservation; patrolling waterways; how black mambas can stand on their tales, chase cars, and kill you in a matter of minutes; and more. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast. Hey everybody, welcome to FOP4 of our dispatches from Africa.

0:40.3

I'm joined here to talk about poaching in Africa and anti-poaching efforts in Africa with Joash Vomo, known as JJ around these parts, who works with Robin Hertz Safaris on community development projects

0:56.8

and anti-poaching efforts.

0:59.6

And we're going to talk a little bit about how those two things actually have something to do with each other.

1:06.2

Before we get into that subject, I want to remind everyone, right now we have the raffle is open. The window

1:12.3

to buy raffle tickets is open for our annual TRCP fundraiser turkey hunt. For many years now,

1:20.7

we run a raffle and we pick a winner and that winner brings along a friend to go turkey hunting

1:26.8

with me and Yannius Patelis. go turkey hunting with me and Ionis

1:27.6

putellus when you win you and your friend we cover your airfare we hook you up

1:34.7

with any gear you might need for the trip we cover the price of your turkey tag we

1:39.6

cover food lodging everything we pay you don't pay. We pay everything for you guys to come turkey hunt.

1:47.3

You'll spend three nights with us.

1:49.1

We'll have two full days of turkey hunting.

1:50.8

We do it every year.

1:51.7

We bounce around different spots.

1:53.5

We want to hunt.

1:54.1

We always have a ton of luck.

1:55.6

The raffle is open from now to the end of July.

1:59.7

All the expenses for the turkey hunt are covered by a donor, a buddy mine, covers all the expenses.

2:08.3

All of the raffle ticket money goes directly to TRCP, and TRCP's, you know, their slogan, again, is guaranteeing Americans quality places to hunting fish.

2:17.1

All the money stays on mission when you buy a raffle ticket.

2:20.7

The recent public lands fight that we lived through, TRCP was front and center in getting that squared away and leading us to a big victory in that battle.

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