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We Stand With The World's Rangers On World Ranger Day: Rangers Rock!

7/30/2020

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31 July is World Ranger Day. World Ranger Day commemorates rangers killed or injured in the line of duty and celebrates the critical work rangers do to protect the world’s natural and cultural treasures. Each painted rock is a memory in honor of a ranger killed in the line of duty. Wild Nature Institute honors a ranger's memory with our Rangers Rock giraffe rock.

Wild Nature Institute stands with the International Ranger Federation and PAMS Foundation to thank and celebrate all of the world's rangers for sticking their necks our to protect giraffes and other precious wildlife -- sometimes losing their lives in defense of species other than themselves. They are true heroes in a world where we desperately need such people. We thank the world's rangers from the bottom of our hearts.
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Tuwatunze Twiga: Music for Giraffe Conservation

7/20/2020

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In 2018, Wild Nature Institute commissioned a local gospel choir to record the song Tuwatunze Twiga, which means “let’s protect giraffes.” The song describes how giraffes are beautiful and God tells people to conserve giraffes, but that giraffes are threatened by poaching. The song was played on a major radio station servicing the Tarangire-Manyara region, every day for the entire months of December (2018) and January (2019).

To document community perceptions of giraffes and whether they were influenced by the Tuwatunza Twiga song, James Madeli of the Wild Nature Institute in Tanzania administered short surveys of randomly selected community members before and after broadcast of the song. We are excited to announce the new report prepared by Madeli and our colleagues Alex Ocañas and Dr. James Danoff-Burg of The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Ocañas and Danoff-Burg are experts in the human dimensions of conservation, and helped us design the survey questionnaire and analyzed our survey data. This report documents the impacts of this conservation media project on perceptions of giraffes by community members.

The report revealed some interesting information that will improve Wild Nature Institute’s giraffe conservation messaging in the future. In summary, the data showed:
  • Most people agreed giraffes are beautiful, and about 70% of community respondents understood that giraffes are threatened by poaching.
  • Respondents were mostly supportive of people like park rangers who are working to protect natural resources, and believe they are doing a good job.
  • 30% of respondents heard the Tuwatunze Twiga song.
  • People who heard the song were significantly more likely to agree that God tells us that we should protect giraffes.

Our results indicate that the song appealed to people’s religious beliefs, and suggest that in the future we could leverage these beliefs to improve our conservation messages. We will be including this project in an upcoming book to be edited by Dr. Derek Lee and Dr. Monica Bond of Wild Nature Institute called Tarangire: Human-Wildlife Coexistence in a Fragmented Ecosystem.

Please see the full report for details. We thank all of our donors for supporting our giraffe conservation projects in Tanzania – we could not do this work without you. Thank you to James Madeli whose hard work in the field generated these data. Thank you also to Alex Ocañas and Dr. James Danoff-Burg for doing an excellent job on this important report, and The Living Desert for being our long-term conservation partners.
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