Cameroonian ranger killed by wildlife poachers

Two to three rangers are being shot a week as poachers step up their predations on the world's wildlife

Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. We must do more to help them

A Cameroonian ranger was ambushed and killed by ivory poachers on Wednesday while patrolling to protect elephants and gorillas. During the last morning of a 10-day patrol in Lobi(C)ki(C) National Park, Bruce Danny Ngongo was shot three times, once in the thigh and twice in the hip.

"[Ngongo fell after] an ambush by a gang of poachers heavily armed with Kalachnikov [sic] who immediately opened fire on the surveillance staff," said Lobi(C)ki(C) National Park director Achille Mengamenya Goue, in a letter sent on the evening of the incident to Cameroon's forestry and wildlife minister, Philip Ngole Ngwese.