Recent Snare Survey
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Apr 29 2009 | By: davidngala
On April 9th, our acting manager Lucy Kapombe, David Ngala, and Gede Forester Blessington Maganga and his rangers went on a snare survey in the forest. After traveling down the trail some ways they came upon three poachers carrying saws and a bag of bushmeat. Upon seeing the rangers, the poachers fled, leaving all their things behind. The team recovered a number of tools used to remove trees, and the cooked meat and skin of a red duiker. Along with the meat, they also disassembled 39 snares of various sizes recently set up by poachers in the forest, and uncovered 16 stumps of trees cut down by the poachers for timber.
The snare survey on April 15th involved no such run in with poachers, but did manage to dismantle 20 snares.
FoASF has benefited greatly from the help of the Gede division of the Kenya Forest Service. Mr. Maganga has been more than helpful in providing rangers for the snare surveys, and is quite adept at identifying them himself.
The team with the unfortunate catch of the poachers.
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One Response to “Recent Snare Survey”
Evanson Kariuki, on 16 May 2009
Thank you all for your efforts to keep bushmeat poachers at bay. wildlife is threatened wherever it exists and its people like you who are called upon to lead the fight against the bushmeat trade.unless we all work together to collaboratively address this menace, we will not have any wildlife to talk about in the near future.
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