VIDEO EXTRA View an AOPA Live This Week video on this story. In Kenya, GA is helping to save wildlife Training to stop destruction BY JIM MOORE PHOTOGRAPHY BY THE AUTHOR ACACIA TREES AND RED, DUSTY GROUND flash past just below the open door of a Super Cub as George Mwangi flies low toward a section of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers deploying in combat formation from a truck. Dressed in camouflage fatigues and armed with assault rifles, the rangers dismount and move forward with heads low, advancing in turns to encircle a trio of armed men toting guns and elephant tusks. Ivory today is worth more than $900 a pound on the black market, a price that has increased dramatically in recent years. These particular "poachers" were actually rangers dressed to look the part of Somali poachers, who often travel many miles on foot to kill on land protected by KWS rangers and pilots. The rangers were staging a demonstration of a mission that recurs frequently, with casualties on 80 | AOPA PILOT October 2014