How about Dying for?
The World Conservation Union recently posted an article debating the issue. As the battle between poachers and park rangers escalates, what’s needed to protect the people who put their lives on the line for nature?
The article opens: Two AK-47 rifles and 30 rounds of ammunition; one ranger shot in the shoulder; three suspected poachers and five elephants killed: just another day for the Kenya Wildlife Service, in a nation where more rangers have been killed since the beginning of 2011 than in the same period of any other year. Further west, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), at least 12 rangers are murdered each year protecting gorillas, reflecting a worrying increasing global trend in ranger deaths.
True conservation heroes continue to fight, and die, for the survival of their native wildlife. This is an open debate with comments welcome. Read the article and comment if you like : http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/world_conservation_debate/?7206
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This is a side of conservation that we rarely hear about. So many endangered animals are injured, orphaned or killed by poachers for profit. The ones that don’t make it in the news are those that are saved by rangers who at times take the bullet for these creatures. Thanks Peter for bringing this story to light.
To me I would Die to protect nature. Nature is something that some people can not live without. It the air we breathe, without nature there would be no us. Good work to all the rangers out there protecting the nature as it deserves.