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Care for Rangers Protecting Gorillas
Last July, Thin Green Line provided support for Ranger teams protecting gorillas and other rare species in remote areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Ranger Care Box program enabled teams working in three reserves with the Gorilla Organization to purchase personal field equipment. Mia Cooke-Joshi of the Gorilla Organization not only provided the field report – she sent us a lovely letter of thanks, with photos. “Thank you for your incredibly generous donation to The Gorilla Organization rangers in July 2020, through your Ranger Care Box initiative,” Mia said. “Our...
Care for Rangers Protecting Gorillas
Last July, Thin Green Line provided support for Ranger teams protecting gorillas and other rare species in remote areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Ranger Care Box program enabled teams working in three reserves with the Gorilla Organization to...
The Fine Line between Wildlife and Communities
Three East African Rangers have been killed by elephants in recent weeks. These three incidents were unrelated but they highlight the complex roles rangers have working with wildlife and local communities. In one case, a team of rangers responded to an emergency...
Our Annual Report 2019-2020
Left to right, Rangers Ann Nairoshi, Linet Sailepu, Agnes Sopilal, Joyce Sereya and Veronica Lanoi. Image courtesy of Big Life Foundation and Intrepid Foundation.In a year that changed so unexpectedly, The Thin Green Line has strengthened its resolve to support...
We need to keep Rangers at the forefront of conservation
TGLF’s founder Sean Willmore and Chair Bill Jackson recently contributed to an article published by the World Commission on Protected Areas, the world's premier network of protected area expertise, on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on protected and conserved...
Why we celebrate World Ranger Day
Every day Rangers risk their lives to protect wildlife and wild places across the globe. Every year on 31 July, we pause to remember the Fallen Rangers who have died defending the natural world. On 31st July, The Thin Green Line Foundation invites you stand with the...
Nature’s protectors – Deadly Toll
Read the letter sent to our supporters sent for the latest Fallen Ranger Appeal in response to the alarminly growing number of Rangers killed this month, defending wildlife. To: The Thin Green Line Community, “Sadly, this month we’ve lost over 23 Rangers collectively...
COVID-19 Response letter from TGLF Founder Sean Willmore
Rangers, COVID-19 & The Thin Green Line Foundation We hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe in these unprecedented times in modern history. There is much pain for many: losing livelihoods, freedoms and loved ones. It is a time when a single zoonotic...
New opportunity for ranger organisations
Organisations are invited to apply for support to provide critical gear for rangers.
‘Poacher’ pursuit success, despite dramatic twist: GPS drama highlights LEAD Ranger trainees’ skills
A recent poacher tracking exercise in the foothills of Kilimanjaro has proven a good example of how the unexpected will always happen on Ranger operations – and how the LEAD training program sharpens rangers' critical skills. Trainees, split into a 'suspects' group...
2017-18 Annual Report
Download the 2017-2018 Annual Report for The Thin Green Line Foundation.
The Age – “Untold story of nature’s protectors” (Feb 2019)
Simon Caterson writes about the Ranger to Ranger documentary, screening on March 5 at Cinema Nova as part of the 2019 Transitions Film Festival.
TGLF and Sumatran Ranger Project – Friendship Grant
Our project Community Ranger Conservation in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra has been awarded an Australian Aid: Friendship Grant by the Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade
2016-2017 Annual Report
Download the 2016/2017 Annual Report for the Thin Green Line Foundation.