{"id":28824,"date":"2023-12-27T16:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T07:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sena.com\/stories\/people\/rally-for-rangers\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:19:16","slug":"rally-for-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post_people","link":"https:\/\/dev.sena.com\/en-us\/stories\/people\/rally-for-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally for Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rally for Rangers is a not-for-profit organization that supports park rangers around the world who protect some of Earth’s most important natural and cultural resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worldwide, park rangers are protecting some of the most important natural and cultural resources on the planet, but are under-equipped. More than 150 park rangers are killed annually in the line of duty while combating poaching, wildfires, and other risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, retired U.S. National Park Park Ranger Bob \u201cMac\u201d McIntosh was working with nonprofit Mongol Ecology Center founder, Ono Batkhu and her husband Wesley Thornberry on management plans for Lake Hovsgol National Park in northern Mongolia. During a meeting with the local chief ranger, a call came in about illegal activities within the park. The ranger quickly got on his motorcycle only to have it fall apart upon hitting the road berm due to it being in such poor condition. Mac was incensed at the condition of the ranger’s equipment and at that moment, committed to come back the following year with a new motorcycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One year later he made good on that promise as Mac, Wesley, and 13 others personally delivered 15 new bikes to the rangers of Lake Hovsgol. Thus, a movement was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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