EES “Insider” - Save The Rhinos

I put this post off for months. Not because the subject is boring or because I have nothing to say about it. Not even because the topic is not important to me or because I find it difficult to write about it. No, I put it off because it is a very serious and important issue. I knew I would have to think a lot about the rhinos after this post and I wanted to prepare for it. Yes, that was the plan, but to be honest, I just put it off. But that was wrong. It is not right to close your eyes and think what I cannot see does not exist. And that's why I open my eyes and we will all look.

Africa has a problem to contend with and that problem is called WILDLIFE. Many of you know that EES is very committed to the rhinos.

But how did it come about and what exactly does his support actually look like?

In November 2013, we all remember, EES was at the Channel O Awards in South Africa. He had the German cameraman Stephan Dietze with him - some of you already know him - to shoot at the awards. It was there that he found out about his nomination for the millionaire election. Without further ado, EES decided to shoot a video on a rhino farm (Mount Ejo) to get even more attention for the rhinos through this show. EES has been supporting the rhinos since 2011, for example with WUMA, of which part of the profit goes to the Rhino for Erongo Foundation. The lids from WUMA also draw attention to the rhinos.

Nevertheless, he did not begin to deal intensively with this topic until 2013. What he heard and saw on this farm just shocked him. In the past 40 years, the black rhinoceros population across Africa has dropped from over 60,000 to just under 3,000.

EES immediately thought about how to make the world aware of this problem and, above all, how to help. The first thing he did was start selling bracelets in his shop, with almost 85% of the proceeds going to Save the Rhino Trust.

Then at the beginning of 2015 he started to bring out his own Rhino t-shirt collection and the feedback on it was huge. Whole lodges (Namib Desert Lodge) put on T-shirts on certain days to draw the tourists' attention to the rhinos.

Part of the proceeds from the new EES shoes will also go to Save the Rhino and the shoes have a flyer in their packaging when they are purchased, which draws attention to the situation of the rhinos.

EES has recently been supporting a rhino project that aims to follow and observe rhinos with drones.

HORN Namibia and is an independent organization for which many lodges and farms from Namibia have come together. EES specially designed a t-shirt that is sold at lodges.

EES also raised another €1000 for HORN Namibia at a doctor's convention in Berlin this year.

As sad and serious as this topic is, it is all the more wonderful that so many people are committed to the preservation of the animal world. Every animal that leaves our earth has an impact on nature.

That is why it is so important not to close your eyes and not push this topic away from you. EES is a public figure and uses this public not only for himself but also to help nature and the rhinos.

We can support him in this.