20 Jul 11
On Tuesday we were on our way back from a shopping trip in Tzaneen when we got a call to divert to a nearby wildlife rehabilitation centre, which SanWild interacts with quite a bit, to pick up a dead zebra. Locals had brought in a zebra foal that had been caught in a poacher’s snare. Unfortunately the damage to its leg was too great and the zebra had to be euthanized. Now you can see why I have given up my comfortable life in Australia to live in the African bush!
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| Barend, Gary and Bob lookig at the 'snare wound' in a young zebra in the back of our bakkie (ute). |
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| What a poacher's snare does to an innocent animal! We do this job to stop this type of thing happening. |
Oh God, how awful! Did it suffer long?
ReplyDeleteThat's terrible Gary. I hope that you can save at least a few of the animals from suffering.
ReplyDeleteHi Mum and Ms Dig, unfortunately it did suffer. Snare poaching and dog poaching are a huge problem over here but not as high profile as rhino poaching. Snare poaching is done for the 'bush meat' market for commercial reasons rather than subsistance, so I have no sympathy for the poachers (how I have changed since I was a kid Mum!).
ReplyDeleteFortunately on our Farm, there has been no poaching for about 3 months, due to the efforts of the SanWild Anti Poacing Unit.
Love,
Gary