Day 396- Three Elephants and One Pilot Dead

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about 

things that matter."

~Martin Luther King, Jr. 

This past week in Tanzania, British pilot Roger Gower was shot in his helicopter by poachers on the ground.  He was helping Tanzanian wildlife authorities track poacher groups, when he was fatally killed by AK-47 assault-rifle fire. The same group of poachers killed at least three elephants that day.  

The Washington post reports that The Thin Green Line (http://thingreenline.org.au/) estimates that commercial poachers and armed militia have killed a thousand rangers in the line of duty.  We must stand in solidarity with groups such as the Thin Green Line, training park rangers and supporting their communities as they are on the front line of conservation and anti-poaching.  

Read the full article here: http://bigstory.ap.org

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