
Think about it...
Our game parks and nature conservancies are no more the isolated and protected areas we knew when we grew up. In some instances, it became a warzone.
Our game parks and nature conservancies had field rangers working there who were answering the call of their profession, regardless the amount of pay, job benefits and overtime due to them at the end of the month.
Our game parks and nature conservancies were a save haven of the rhino, the elephant, the lion and the tree.
Once, a few rangers could cope with the workload.
Once, snares were a very uncommon nuisance.
Once, tourists were disciplined and acted respectful towards the creatures living inside the wildlife fences
A long time ago, there were not so many human beings
A long time ago, there were only gravelroads
A long time ago, there were not so many threats to nature conservation, as it is today.
Now, we can not only be tourists or vistors to parks anymore,
butgot to be the ears and the eyes of parksmanagement as well
Now, we need to lend a helping hand as force multipliers
Now, our beloved rhino is threatened with extinction, among many other species
Now, political agreements rule the possible survival of a specie
Therefor, I am a contributing Field Ranger Reservist:
I want to hear the unspoiled sounds that birds and animals make
I want to see indigenous plants bloom, and blossom out into
I want to smell unstained fresh air after lifegiving rains
I want to feel the sand on an unlittered beach and feel the salty water of the unspoiled sea on my skin
I want to touch and uplift the lives of my uneducated and needy community
i want to live in a greener, cleaner, safer and crime free environment, for
Tomorrow, our children must inherit todays natural heritage that I am working on now.
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." Abraham Lincoln