Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. Where is the outrage?

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Every year more than 100 wildlife rangers are murdered in the line of duty. Why do they get so little support? And where is the outrage?

Sean Willmore

Founder and director of the Thin Green Line Foundation and president of the International Ranger Federation

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A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service stands guard as pyres of ivory are set on fire in Nairobi National Park
 A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service stands guard. Earlier this year pyres of ivory were set on fire in Nairobi in order to discourage the ivory trade. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

As we sat by the campfire, Gervais, a ranger from the forests of Malawi, slowly pulled back his hair to expose a 20cm scar left by a machete attack that nearly killed him. Poachers, he told me.

I was at an international rangers’ conference, held 13 years ago in a national park on the southern tip of mainland Australia. Another ranger, Jobogo Mirindi from the Democratic…

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