Bushmeat Photos
Hunter on a bushmeat expedition.
Tag: Life
Lion poaching on the increase…
With dwindling numbers, rapid habitat loss including poisoning by farming communities, increasingly high numbers of lions are being both targeted and have become victims of reckless snaring. Below are some heart breaking images: Video of poachers caught in the Mara Continue Reading
Conyngham volunteer travels to Africa to help protect great apes from poaching
When Nicole Cook, a postmaster from Conyngham, entered a school in the Nigerian village of Iko Ekperem, she wrote her name on the board, pointed at a globe to show where she came from and led the children in a Continue Reading
Elephants, lions snared every week
EACH week, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has to rescue an elephant or lion from a wire snare.The snares, set up by poachers, are fixed on fences or trees to trap the animals. Many animals are killed every Continue Reading
Anti-poaching operations boosted in Kruger Park
December 2009. Kruger National Park (KNP) Rangers and South African National Parks (SANParks) Environmental Crimes Investigations (ECI) units have installed high technology invisible tracking devices to some of the Kruger rhinos. This is one of the many strategies that SANParks Continue Reading