Standing with the rangers on conservation's front line
Around 150 rangers lose their lives protecting wildlife each year. The foundation backs them.
Rangers are the human shield between wildlife and those who would destroy it. They patrol vast, remote landscapes, often under-equipped and underpaid, facing threats that can turn fatal in an instant.
Around 150 rangers lose their lives in the line of duty every year. Many die as a direct result of violence, and countless more carry physical and psychological wounds that receive little attention or support.
The Thin Green Line Foundation, an Ecoflix partner, exists to change that.
The foundation stands behind rangers and their families, recognising that the people prepared to put themselves in harm's way for the natural world deserve more than gratitude. They deserve practical, sustained backing.
That means supporting the rangers themselves and, crucially, acknowledging the families who share the burden of this dangerous and essential work. When a ranger is lost or seriously injured, the ripple effect reaches far beyond the individual.
Conservation so often focuses on the species and habitats being protected, and rightly so. But none of that protection happens without the men and women on the ground making it possible, day after day and night after night.
The realities rangers face — isolation, danger, inadequate resources, and the psychological toll of what they witness — are rarely part of the wider conservation conversation. The Thin Green Line Foundation works to bring those realities into the light.
By strengthening the support available to rangers and their families, the foundation ensures that the human cost of conservation is neither forgotten nor left unaddressed.
Their welfare is not separate from the mission. It is central to it.