Beninese Anti-Poaching BDU Cap, Surplus

Here’s something that you don’t see every day! The BDU cap of the Beninese wildlife park rangers in a rare camo pattern featuring African wildlife. A small batch. If you want a truly unique cap that doesn’t murder your wallet, act fast. You will look dashing in lion and buffalo!

Not much to say about the features really. A very simple field cap that has four ventilation holes and an elastic band at the back. There is also a mesh lining on the brow.

Use

This cap is part of the uniform of the wildlife park rangers that operate under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resource Protection in Benin, located in Western Africa. The uniform also has cargo pants and a BDU jacket that are sold separately. This camo pattern is specifically designed for this unit. It utilizes paw and hoof prints as well as lion and cape buffalo heads in addition to abstract patterns. The unit primarily operates in the Pendjari National Park located in northwestern Benin.

The illegal killing of wild animals in Africa is very often part of international organized crime operations and there’s a lot of money involved. For this reason, national parks employ park rangers that conduct anti-poaching operations, chasing professional poachers that are after ivory and ingredients for fucked up eastern wee-wee meds. It is a very challenging and dangerous job because the criminals often shoot first rather than surrender.

This isn’t perhaps an ideal camo pattern for the northern coniferous forests but if you just want to look fabulous, it is quite nice for summer hikes. This is also suitable for the concrete jungle. Best used with the rest of the uniform but works nicely on its own, too. So, get rid of that old baseball cap of yours and get one of these rare beauties.

Sizing

The sizes are given in the standard European hat size, which is supposed to be the circumference of the head in centimeters. However, these are very small centimeters. The actual size is 1-2 cm smaller. So the size 59 cap is actually around 57-58 cm. That is why we included the actual size in brackets.