Video: Blood for Blood: Afghan War Veteran Girl Fights Poaching in Africa
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
That girls are by no means the weaker sex, no one doubts for a long time. A striking example of this is American Kinessa Johnson, which resembles a terminator, but only in a female guise. A veteran of the Afghan war, she also found something to her liking in a peaceful life - with a weapon in her hands protects the nature of Africa from poachers.
After serving 4 years in the US Army, Kinessa joined VETPAW, a veteran organization dedicated to protecting East African fauna. It was from poachers that rhinos, elephants and other species of endangered animals suffered, so the military decided to punish the hunters according to the laws of the wild. "Blood for blood" - this is the motto of the team, which arrived in Tanzania on March 26 and is looking for criminals.
Kinessa came to train the patrolmen in shooting, first aid, and the basics of reconnaissance. Over the past year, among the patrolmen, 187 people were killed while trying to protect wild animals, she said. The nonprofit VETPAW was founded by retired Marine Ryan Tate, who decided to recruit 9/11 rescue service retirees as volunteers.
Kinessa Johnson and her team not only patrol the African savannah, but also accept voluntary donations for the development of flora and fauna. On the popular social networks Facebook and Instagram, the girl regularly uploads photo reports, and today VETPAW already has more than 45 thousand subscribers. In addition, the Discovery Channel plans to film a documentary about their activities.
Another anti-poaching method is public service advertising. Not so long ago, IFAW, the International Fund for the Protection of Animals, released a series of eloquent prints that depict animals at gunpoint … shotguns.
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