(MENAFN- Nam News Network) ZIMBABWE'S WOMEN WILDLIFE RANGERS WAGE WAR ON POACHERS
ZIMBABWE'S WOMEN WILDLIFE RANGERS WAGE WAR ON POACHERS. All-female team of anti-poaching rangers at Phundundu wildlife area in the lower Zambezi region on July 16, 2018. A group of sexual assault survivors, single mothers and victims of domestic violence have found a new lease on life as armed and fiercely dedicated anti-poaching rangers on a trophy hunting ground turned conservation area in Zimbabwe's . Against the odds in Zimbabwe's patriarchal society, as well as the men's club that is armed conservation in Africa, the women have proved themselves incorruptible and fearless, says Damien Mander the strapping, tattooed Australian who set up the project. In the nine months the program has been running, the women have made 51 arrests, most of which have resulted in prosecutions. Photo courtesy Agencies
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