Posted by: Ryan Driscoll, Education Photos by Ryan Driscoll, Woodland Park Zoo The issues of poaching and wildlife trafficking can seem black and white—it’s bad news. At least that was the initial sentiment of many of the middle school students who participated in this last semester’s ZooCrew, Woodland Park Zoo’s after-school program. However, as the students explored the issue, they started to realize just how complex the causes and solutions can be. One student explained why poaching in Africa can be a difficult issue, “people poach because they need the money and they can’t find a job that will pay them enough. They need to have a way to feed their families.” This led the students to explore a range of solutions such as recruiting those poachers to become rangers (who protect wildlife), building sustainable industries and supporting local communities that offer alternative employment. They then explored ways that people here in Seattle...