Thin Green Line

I am going to mention this group again, http://www.thingreenline.org.au/.

Please have a look at there website especially if you like to see animals in the wild, in most cases animals need looking after and protecting by people. Rangers are out there day in day out in lots of countries protecting them and helping scientists understand them.

Unfortunately rangers especially in less well off countries die every year often because of illegal poachers who will stop at nothing to get an animal or the part of it they want. A dead ranger nearly always leaves a family with little if any support to help them survive.

Next time you watch a wildlife programme about animals in Africa, Asia, South America and ooh and aah remember there are people living and dying to protect them, and if you can spare a bit of cash think about donating it to the Thin Green Line. Look on it as paying a bit extra to watch animals on the telly.

Yes I was a ranger in this country England, I will never forget speaking to and hearing rangers from around the world at an international conference just talking about their lives and what forms a routine part of it. A routine part that can become the end of their lives. I came home from that conference with a shirt made by the wife of an african ranger who had been killed by a poacher, its a shirt I wear sometimes when storytelling, a shirt that has its own story.