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Cycling the length of Britain to help rangers

Africa
Gary Noakes
25 August 2020

A team of travel professionals is nearing the end of a cycle ride from Lands End to John O’Groats to benefit rangers in Africa made unemployed by the pandemic.

The Ride4Rangers team set off

The core team of 10 left Cornwall on 10 August to start the 874-mile challenge and are being joined en route by more than 40 others. They are expected to arrive on Saturday (29 August).

Globally, similar events are planned to achieve a cumulative 30,000km total – equal to circumnavigating Africa.

Ride4Rangers is a collaboration with conservation charity Tusk. In other events, a team in South Africa’s Kruger National Park are doing a relay walk from north to south, while in northern Kenya, another team are doing a horse ride for rangers traversing the Borana conservancy and into Lewa conservancy.