The Women Rangers of Olderkesi Conservancy, a 7000 acre wildlife conservancy situated on the southern edge of the Masai Mara Reserve on the Kenya-Tanzania border. Olderkesi, which is run by Cottars Wildlife Community Trust (CWCT), is the first organisation to enlist the services of 10 female rangers. Hired from the local Masai community their main role is to help break cultural barriers in conservation of natural resources especially to help fight the rampant illegal charcoal trade in the area. "We can connect to the Masai women from our local communities easily, when we explain to them why not to cut trees they listen to us", says Hellen, 24. "The girls in the villages now see us as role models," says Resiatu, 19, "there is no job now that a woman can't do". Of Africa’s 11 vulture species, 7 are considered critically endangered or endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Over the past three decades, eight species of African vultures have declined by an average of 62 percent (according to a 2015 study by researchers from various universities and nonprofits). This same study found that more than 60 percent of reported vulture deaths were a result of poisoning.