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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.

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