kkenzki
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- Oct 27, 2012
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Kinessa Johnson isn't exactly what you'd call an average woman, what with the high-power sniper rifle-she has to brandish on the daily as a part of her-profession.
But what makes Johnson special isn't the fact that she carries a gun for a living. It's what she does with it that has gun, and animal lovers alike, up in arms over her-incredible work in a continent beset on all sides by poaching.
Johnson is an Afghan war vet who spent four-and-a-half years with the US Army. Her idea of retirement has been to reenlist in a different fight under a different banner, taking up arms on behalf of VETPAW (Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife).
In the past week, her decision to ship off to Tanzania and-fight poaching has turned her from a selfless stewardess of Mother Nature's embattled creatures into an Internet phenomenon known as the female "poacher hunter."
And needless to say, hunting is something she's quite good at. As in,-split a bullet in two on the blade of an axe-a la Robin Hood.
In a recent Reddit AMA, Johnson opened up about what her work entails and the madness that accompanies life in-Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area. And as many-such Q&A's go on Reddit, it was chock full of candid humor and cutting insights.
While Johnson-hesitates to own up to the "poacher hunter" monicker that the Internet's affixed to her, the work she does is no less significant.
As a weapons instructor and technical advisor to rangers, she goes on patrols with rangers and trainees and-has a heavy hand, in tracking and beating back the cunning and sometimes well-equipped crime syndicates responsible for sourcing the illicit goods from the endangered species now under her protection.
But in-a global fight with solutions ranging from protection to educating the cultures from which the demand for these goods arise, Johnson's pretty dead set on a philosophy of immediate security.
Source: ryot.org
But what makes Johnson special isn't the fact that she carries a gun for a living. It's what she does with it that has gun, and animal lovers alike, up in arms over her-incredible work in a continent beset on all sides by poaching.
Johnson is an Afghan war vet who spent four-and-a-half years with the US Army. Her idea of retirement has been to reenlist in a different fight under a different banner, taking up arms on behalf of VETPAW (Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife).
In the past week, her decision to ship off to Tanzania and-fight poaching has turned her from a selfless stewardess of Mother Nature's embattled creatures into an Internet phenomenon known as the female "poacher hunter."
And needless to say, hunting is something she's quite good at. As in,-split a bullet in two on the blade of an axe-a la Robin Hood.
In a recent Reddit AMA, Johnson opened up about what her work entails and the madness that accompanies life in-Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area. And as many-such Q&A's go on Reddit, it was chock full of candid humor and cutting insights.
While Johnson-hesitates to own up to the "poacher hunter" monicker that the Internet's affixed to her, the work she does is no less significant.
As a weapons instructor and technical advisor to rangers, she goes on patrols with rangers and trainees and-has a heavy hand, in tracking and beating back the cunning and sometimes well-equipped crime syndicates responsible for sourcing the illicit goods from the endangered species now under her protection.
But in-a global fight with solutions ranging from protection to educating the cultures from which the demand for these goods arise, Johnson's pretty dead set on a philosophy of immediate security.
Source: ryot.org
