Mission and Values

Marine Anti-Poaching Unit (MAPU) strives to provide a sustainable solution for Marine conservation.

The Operations Director was the brain child behind Marine Anti-Poaching Unit (MAPU) utilising 17 years’ experience in anti-poaching as the key driving force for the start of the Non-Profit Company (NPC)/ Non-Profit Organisation (NPO). The director donated key start up equipment and learning material to ensure success.

Based on the director’s knowledge and our Mission, the NPC/NPO Values has been stipulated as:

Maximizing – Using any and all resources to deliver against Marine Anti-Poaching Unit (MAPU) mission to sustain our marine life.

Agility – Move quickly and easily with assertiveness to address any risks identified through paying close attention to detail (attentiveness).

Passion – Deliver measurable results through creating environmental awareness by educating the community and expanding our volunteer and donation base.

Unflappable – Ensuring we manage every situation calmly through a unified and cohesive community approach.

Objective

Marine Anti-Poaching Unit aims to deliver on a variety of objectives linked to marine conservation, social development and community:

• Poverty relief through job creation and youth development
• Environmental protection through monitoring/reporting and assisting SAPS, DEA, DAFF, CAPE NATURE, SANPARKS and other Law Enforcement Agencies
• Marine Conservation – Awareness created by sustainability education
• Reduce marine poaching activity at the South African Coastline by June 2022
• Employ 24/7 monitoring team to cover the South African Coastline
• Environmental Awareness through social media
• Poaching prevention by deploying monitoring teams to monitor poaching hotspots
• Skills development through training – short courses
• Youth Development Projects:
  o Community projects focusing on marine conservation – holiday programs
  o Beach clean ups
  o School projects
  o Marine pollution education – the impact of our “waste”
  o Etc.