A Poacher’s snare

 lion_snare.jpg (102720 bytes)Tens of thousands of wireWires snares are non-selective. Often a lion or leopard will find an animal impailed on a snare and will be caught itself in a nearby snare. Such wasteful lost of wildlife makes snares the number one enemy of wildlife, caused largely by consequences of poverty forcing people to depend on game meat in exchange for household essentials. snares are used by villagers as a way  of killing wild animals.  Animals suffer for days before dying, often slow, cruel deaths and hundreds are killed annually this way throughout Zambia.  

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This food relief was purchased from wildlife revenues to relieve needy families of famine and allow them to spend more time farming and growing enough food for the next season. Such investments have a direct impact on wildlife numebers.The ADMADE program offers an alternative way to use wildlife by returning tourism revenues to communities to help reduce hunger and support rural incomes.  Approximately $800,000 are returned annually this way.  WIldlife revenues provide communities a way to invest in new skills and income ventures to enable households to escape poverty.

 Through ADMADE, villages are giving up snaring and adopting better ways to use their land.  The College is helping the process by providing a financial incentive to surrender snares.  Over 400 were recovered in this way in year 2000.

 

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