Article 55MHB Team Lioness: the Kenyan women rangers risking their lives for wildlife

Team Lioness: the Kenyan women rangers risking their lives for wildlife

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Georgina Smith
from Environment | The Guardian on (#55MHB)

The coronavirus lockdown adds to challenges for those on the frontline of the war against poaching

  • Words and photographs by Georgina Smith

Her black boots brushing through swathes of yellow-brown bush, 24-year-old Purity Amleset is feeling tense. But fear is just part of the job, she says, as she patrols her section of the 147,000-hectare (363,000-acre) community land around Kenya's Amboseli National Park, a Unesco-designated biosphere reserve.

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