The people smiling back at you hold the respect of every ranger at Big Life Foundation.
They also have enormous respect for one another.
On the left is Sergeant Mutinda. Once the most feared poacher in the ecosystem, he renounced his craft and redirected his energy into catching poachers.
On the right is Sergeant Kanchorri. He has caught more poachers than any other ranger at Big Life. Even at 56, he is still regarded as one of the fittest and hardest working members of our Rapid Response Units. Mutinda says it well; “Kanchorri is more than just a man, he is easily a man and a half.”
When Kanchorri started working at Big Life as a ranger, Mutinda taught him everything he knew: access routes that poachers used, how they evaded arrest, where they established their camps, and how they set their snares.
This insider knowledge has been instrumental to Kanchorri and to Big Life’s anti-poaching operations.
Kanchorri now leads a team of his own, passing his knowledge on to the next generation of Big Life rangers.
But our rangers need more than knowledge. They need your help.
As Kanchorri states, “Land Cruisers, radios, GPS devices, better uniforms, all make my job as a ranger much easier. We can patrol further, collect information faster, and make more arrests.”
Photo: Joshua Clay
