Battling ruthless poachers with a camera to help save iconic wildlife
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Currently working with a South-Africa-based organisation fighting animal cruelty, German-born Angie Raab studies photojournalism long distance with the online College of Media and Publishing (CMP), based in Chichester since 2003.
Angie originally arranged a month’s visit to South Africa in 2014, with the aim of boosting her photojournalism skills.
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Hide AdOnce there, she met people from anti-poaching initiative Boots on the Ground and decided to get involved.
She said: “I became intrigued and realised that no-one had been telling their stories. I felt that I could do more than just listen.
“Three months later, I started working on a photographic piece about these men and women, about the last barrier between the merciless poachers and the wildlife.”
Today, Angie’s project is being turned into a documentary.
She said: “I now have stunning footage of heroes who are fighting on the frontline of the war on wildlife in Africa. And it is a war here.