By Holly Budge | Founder - World Female Ranger Week
The aim of our ongoing fundraising campaign here on GlobalGiving is to raise funds for female and mixed ranger teams in Africa, in line with our annual initiative, World Female Ranger Week, on June 23rd-30th.
This ground-breaking global awareness week celebrates and supports female rangers around the world. Female rangers are bold, changing the game and paving the way for women to stand alongside men at the forefront of conservation, but they need allies.
World Female Ranger Week brings together female wildlife rangers on a global platform, to tell their stories, have access to peer support, offer and receive advice, and share knowledge. As champions of wildlife conservation, role models, educators and as beacons of hope, these women are not only transforming attitudes towards the role of women but are also showing the capabilities and success of females in traditionally male roles.
Meet Janet (Aged 35) a ranger who works with Conservation South Luangwa, Zambia. "Before I became a ranger, I was a farmer. I grew crops such as maize, rice and soya beans to sustain my family and me at home. We were able to have food the whole year which would cater for the 3 of us, and we were able to share with my extended family. I lost my parents when I was 15 years old, and life was not the same. Everything changed to the extent that both my sister, brother and I were not able to go to school for some time. Fortunately, things went back to normal when I started working under CSL, and I am now the household breadwinner and able to support my relatives."
Less than 11% of the global wildlife ranger workforce is female. With women being natural communicators, protectors and investing their earned income in their families, bringing gender equality into the workforce enhances conservation efforts and relationships within communities.
"An entire gender has been marginalised in conversations on conservation. Women hold diverse roles in conservation, some motivated by poverty and hunger, others by a lack of choice in a patriarchal society, or for others, through empowerment and becoming a role model in the community. You can’t look at the bigger picture of the climate or biodiversity crisis without paying attention to both genders." says Holly Budge, Founder of How Many Elephants & World Female Ranger Week.
Thanks to allour kind supporters.
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