Animal welfare campaigners have long been calling for England to ban cruel and indiscriminate snare traps to bring the ...

Snaring -- a non-selective method of poaching using wire traps -- is widespread in tropical forests in Southeast Asia. Snaring decimates wildlife populations and has pushed many larger mammals to ...

As the wildebeest herd moves north through the border regions with Tanzania, it faces a human threat: an invisible web of wire snares. Poachers sneak across the fenceless border from Tanzania to hunt ...

More tigers live in captivity than exist in the wild. This Sumatran tiger lives at the Big Cat Sanctuary in England, 2017 (Photo by Tom Lee) CAMBRIDGE, UK, July 29, 2017 (ENS) – Illegal wire snare ...

A four-year-old tigress from Tipeshwar wildlife sanctuary, 180km from Nagpur, has been detected with a wire snare. An operation has been launched to rescue the animal. The snare, suspected to be of ...

Nagpur: Twenty-four tigers and 110 leopards choking to death in forests across the country in the last nine years after getting entangled in wire snares laid for herbivores seem to be just tip off the ...

If left untreated, a wire snare can cut through flesh and bone – and a three-legged giraffe will almost certainly die.

Snares are the leading cause of death among Sri Lanka’s leopards, accounting for 42 recorded deaths in the past 10 years. The most recent death was of a rare black leopard, which succumbed to its ...

A lion in Kenya was found trapped in a wire snare that was cutting off his paw. The big cat had stepped into the snare, which was becoming tighter and tighter around his paw as he struggled to escape, ...

Snaring – a non-selective method of poaching using wire traps – is widespread in tropical forests in Southeast Asia. Snaring decimates wildlife populations and has pushed many larger mammals to local ...