Kenya: Meet All-Female Wildlife Protection Team

6 October 2020

The putrid stench of a dead lion, killed by poachers, wafting from the forest would sicken young Eunice Maantei as she was growing up in Imurutot, a village bordering the expansive Amboseli National Park. So did the unpleasant smell of charcoal burning deep inside the forest.

"One day, I will stop this destruction," she would say to herself. That day came in February 2019. Ms Maantei, now 20, is one of the eight women in Team Lioness, an all-female community ranger unit formed last year.

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