The Game Rangers Association of Africa was founded over thirty years ago to highlight ssues faced by Game Rangers. The future of conservation in Africa and the preservation of its wilderness, lies in the hands of its natural resource managers and field rangers.

The Game Rangers Association is committed to ensure that those responsible for the future of conservation in Africa are dedicated, motivated, skills-trained, ethical and professional in the execution of their duties.

Their manifesto states: The work of game rangers is the care and safekeeping of wild game, in the natural communities and native landscapes where these animals have always lived. This is a custodianship which guards for the future genetic diversity inherited from the past. For in these wild places is the testament of the laws of life and of earth. Here is an insurance against the loss of matter essential to life's survival on this planet. No other motive can displace or alter these. As an executor of the natural estate the game ranger may not diminish its assets, nor be party to their depletion. These are terms to this duty which are known, and there are those still to be learnt. Within these limits only may he move; since natural law determines them. To seek their understanding and to act in its light is part of the trust he accepts.