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The Thin Green Line is both a documentary and conservation foundation started by internationally decorated park ranger Sean Willmore. The documentary takes a unique look into the committed and passionate fight to protect our planet and enables the public to see that fight through the eyes of the men and women who are the thin green line – professional park rangers. Set up with the profits from the film, the foundation looks after the welfare of rangers’ families where the ranger has been killed in the line of duty – usually by poachers. The foundation also aims to better equip rangers worldwide so that they have a greater chance of protecting both themselves and wild areas we all care about. The foundation’s target is to support more than one thousand families by raising over three million dollars. In its first two years of operation, the foundation premiered the documentary in fifty countries, raised $A150,000, supported fourteen African widows of rangers killed in the line of duty, and given $US10,000 emergency funding to rangers in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rangers … are usually loners and are seldom influential or powerful people. But without these frontline troops and the quiet and selfless care they bring the animal and natural world, sometimes risking their lives, the wilful destruction of animal life in most countries would be horrendous. In the case of many species, mountain gorillas in the Congo and Uganda for instance, it would be terminal. - Bryce Courtney Back to Ranger in Danger |
