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Humane Struggle

In the Congolese Jungle three men are training for amission.
They train to detain and disarm poachers.
They hope this will be the conclusion of their efforts.
They also train for a formidable alternative.
Poachers are opportunistic and have only self interest.
Poaching of an entire species will break ancient circle oflife.

Congolese rangers are armed to protect the circle of life.
Supporting generations of all species is their mission.
They invest their lives in an important and altruisticinterest.
For them there is no tolerance of poachers.
Killing fields of wasted animal carcasses is noalternative.
A better world for all species depends on their efforts.

Intensity shows on their faces because of their efforts.
There is anger and determination expressed for defense oflife.
They seek surrender from poachers, but prepare foralternative.
African rangers prepare for their dangerous mission.
Rifles raised, knee on ground, they are ready for poachers.
There will be hands tied or bloodshed to defend theirinterest.

Rangers and humanity have a shared interest.
There is need for pressuring greater and continued efforts
to stop any extinction of species by poachers.
The rangers’ trainer shouts and points as if saving life.
It is important to emphasize dangers during a mission.
If anything goes wrong there may be no alternative.

As long as species have breeding populations there is analternative.
Continuing our circle of life must not be a debatedinterest.
Keeping our circle unbroken must be everybody’s mission.
More rangers and training are needed to improve efforts.
In blue fatigues and camouflage hats rangers defend life.
Their appearance is forceful and their gaze threatenspoachers.

It is difficult to find, stop, and educate poachers.
But these undaunted rangers press and carry on our onlyalternative.
They crouch in jungles and pursue takers of life.
They grasp their rifles and nothing deters their interest.
An unrecognized, unseen enemy resides among them and theirefforts.
In the grasses and leaves of jungles rangers take theirmission.

Poachers and their self interest can no longer betolerated.
Efforts to remove poachers’ damage to our circle of life,
depends on the mission of rangers to give species analternative.

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