Photo: A White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) cow and calf coated in mud at Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa, 2006. Photo © James Temple. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
The numbers are staggering: As of January 2017, more than 211,000 post-9/11 U.S. veterans are unemployed, according to the figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the national unemployment rate is 4.8%, veterans top that at 6.3%.
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Former U.S. Marine Ryan Tate, 32, is working to put his fellow veterans to work with the creation of VETPAW (Veterans Empowered To Protect African Wildlife), a non-profit organization funded by private donations that works in a remote private reserve in Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa. The veterans have been entrusted with the protection of endangered species, such as rhinoceroses and elephants, from poachers who have pushed these majestic creatures to the brink of extinction.
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