NIR KALRON
Many of the wildlife poachers are armed with heavy weapons and modern qeopositioning equipment. The think nothing of killing Wildlife Rangers who try to stop them from killing elephants and rhinos for their tests and horns which are highly prized in Asia. Much of the funding to protect the wildlife of Africa comes from United State Non Profit Organizations for whom spending resources to train Wildlife Rangers to use heavy weapons is not very comfortable. But Kalron and others argue that if the local authorities cannot confront the poachers, there is no practical way to preserve the wildlife.
He was visiting the Congo where heavily armed poachers were thwarting the outgunned Wildlife Rangers. Klaxon then began training the Wildlife Rangers and getting them more heavily armed and skilled with their weapons and then fought with them and the poachers were routed and the Rangers were much more successful in protecting the elephants and rhinos who had been slaughtered for their tusks and horns, both of with commanded very high prices in Asia.
Nir Kalron is a former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) combatant for special air operations. He spent over a decade in the security and defense-consulting sector, specializing in Africa geo-politics, wildlife protection, and illicit traffic of contraband.
