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India
Between 2012 and 2017, India accounted for nearly 31 per cent — 162 of 526 — ranger deaths. Besides being the highest globally, this is just one less than the sum of deaths of the next five countries on the list — Congo, Thailand, Kenya, the US and South Africa.
#worldrangerday Day is for those who work on the frontlines every single day. Who risk their lives to secure our forests. Who work day and night to save the voiceless. Who are heroes of the truest sense.
Frontline forest staff in India are increasingly targeted by poachers, illegal miners, timber smugglers and encroachers.
The work that rangers do is critical to India’s ecological and economic security. The forests they protect absorb 11.25 per cent of India’s greenhouse gases, according to a Ministry of Environment and Forests report. The value of what is technically called an “ecosystem service” would amount to ~6 trillion ($120 billion).
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