Dear friends,
In our
lifetime, we could live in a world with no elephants, rhinos,
or gorillas.
It’s heartbreaking -- but there’s one
group of heroes risking everything to stop this slide towards
extinction:
wildlife rangers. They save
thousands of endangered animals every single day. It’s
incredibly dangerous work --
every four days another ranger
is killed. And they do it with almost no training and
equipment -- half of them don’t even have boots!
Now
we have an amazing chance to revolutionise ranger forces all
over the world.
The world’s top rangers are asking
for our help to train and equip thousands of elite
protectors. 300 rangers with this training virtually
stopped elephant poaching in their area. With our support they
can deploy 1,000 new Wildlife Guardians to Africa’s worst
poaching hotspots every single year!
This could be one
of Avaaz’s greatest legacies to the world -- a global wildlife
protection force supported by people everywhere. If 50,000 of
us donate right now, we’ll have the first Guardians on the
ground in months! An elephant is murdered by poachers every 26
minutes -- so
chip in now:
Without
rangers, we’d have lost the fight for our elephants, rhinos,
and other wildlife long ago. But we’re still
losing these
majestic creatures at alarming rates -- 3 rhinos a day in
South Africa alone! -- and scientists warn that if we don’t
stop the slide to extinction soon, it will be too late.
Together,
we can turn it around, but we don’t
have much time.
That’s why this plan is so important:
in just one year, we can train enough rangers to help protect
124,000 elephants on 25 MILLION acres! Then, we’ll
increase our impact by taking this killer idea to ranger
forces all over the world. Rangers have been dreaming of this
for years -- chip in to make it happen right now!
It’s
heartbreaking to imagine that our grandchildren could never
know these magnificent giants. The clock is ticking to save
the wildlife we love -- and rangers are the way to do it.
Avaaz is probably the only movement in the world who can raise
enough, fast enough for this work to get underway immediately.
Let’s make it happen.
With hope and determination,
Allison, Bert, Ricken, Martyna, Marigona and the rest
of the Avaaz team
More information:
Another day,
another dead wildlife ranger. Where is the outrage? (The
Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/10/protect-wildlife-rangers-murder
The Thin Green Line Foundation - Projects
https://thingreenline.org.au/our-projects/
A Forgotten Step in Saving African Wildlife:
Protecting the Rangers (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/science/a-forgotten-step-in-saving-african-wildlife-protecting-the-rangers.html
Rangers across Africa Feel Lack of Equipment,
Training, and Support (WWF)
https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/new-survey-rangers-across-africa-feel-lack-of-equipment-training-and-support