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Corporal Patricia Mututu (left), a 30-year Kenya Wildlife Service veteran, and Ranger Mildred Oduor on patrol in Nairobi National Park.  Hundreds of Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have been shot by poachers in the last three years; 13 have been killed.

Rangers in Kenya are outgunned in the new poaching arms race

October 8, 2013Environment

Kenya’s park rangers work to protect elephants and rhinos from ivory poachers. But they are increasingly outgunned and losing their lives.

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