The risk of murder is higher for environmental activists and wildlife officers than for police officers. Protecting the planet is a dangerous job. Schoolyard massacres and suicide bombers make the headlines, while the near daily assassination of Mother Nature’s Guardians...
Shot by elephant poachers, the manager of Congo's Garamba National Park asked a ranger for help to bind his leg with a tourniquet to slow...
African Parks, a Johannesburg-based group that manages Akagera National Park in Rwanda, said the mother is 11-year-old Shema, one of seven lions transported from South...
Brigadier Venant Mumbere Muvesevese, a 35-year-old father of four, became the 150th ranger in the last 10 years to be killed protecting lowland gorillas, elephants...
On April 29th, the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, addressed the inaugural meeting of the Giants Club Summit, a conference held near Mount Kenya that...
The bullet tore through his thigh, smashing his femur, as the ranger unit advanced towards a gang of poachers at the site of a freshly...
Bloated and eerily upright the large adult elephant was still standing where it had been killed - just next to the stream - its face...
Three park rangers were killed by elephant poachers on Saturday during a shootout in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The park's manager and another ranger...
Seymour, a shoebill chick, was brought to Bangweulu Wetlands by a concerned local community member. The fisherman had heard that people were planning to steal...
Five members from African Parks, including four rangers and the Park Manager, sustained injuries in a shootout with elephant poachers
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