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Eco-guards of the Odzala National Park

Eco-guards are engaging in controling illegal activities inside the park.
 
 
A team of eco-guards who are going on patrol walking along the trackless path. They will stay in the forest for days, so they carry a lot of food. A man in the center, always cheerfully drunk in the village, is very serious and strict in the forest and promoted to chief.
 
A monitoring team of fauna and flora in the park is going up stream by a boat spending two days to their destination. It was in a rainy season, so they had to walk in the forest soakingly.
 

These eco-guards got muddy in the rain and managed to catch a poacher. If they caught a poacher, next they seek after weapons he possessed but hid.

An eco-guard who finished his duty of 10 days holds a pose without showing tiredness. Surprisingly he is a dressmaker in the village.
 

Rotation of the teams in a post in the park. They watch if poachers cross the river, and go on patrol around the post.

They stay in a simple house, which is equipped with radio.

 

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