and their lives have improved a lot. He used to make a living by tapping rubber, earning up to 3,000 yuan (about 443 U.S. dollars) a year. Now he is in charge of a mushroom facility, with a regular monthly salary of 4,000 yuan...
Veteran ranger Jean Claude Mambo Marindo sits beside almost a hundred tusks seized from elephant poachers at Garamba National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The park has lost all its rhinos to poaching for their horns. Now it’s under siege for its ivory, mainly by ...
administrations and national park management agencies. All of the participants in this study voluntarily provided their prior and informed written consent to participate in the discussions. Each focus group consisted of between 5 and 20 people, with an average of 12 participants, and the group discus...
Life on the Ranger District The day-to-day life of a early forest ranger often consisted of surveying, grazing supervision, overseeing timber cutting contracts, fire protection, and forest inspections. A ranger's salary was $75 to $90 per month, which was used to buy a uniform, support th...
When a visitor to Gettysburg National Military Park hears the term “sutler” for the first time, the Park Ranger is often met with a quizzical facial expression in response. The word has its origins in the dutch language and has a loose translation as “one who does dirty work.” No ...
(Mekong) River, which provide water for 900 million people downstream. Its “One Family, One Ranger” program has created 17,000 patrolling jobs, one to each family, paying about 2,000 RMB per month. However, the salary for rangers is still only a fraction of average household incomes, ...
Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan set the all-time strikeout record after sitting down the Oakland Athletics' Rickey Henderson with a 95-mph fastball for his 5,000th career "K". The forty-two year old ace started the contest needing six and finished with seven despite losing 2-0. ...