Urgent - Prevent cruel poaching of rare wildlife

Dear Friends,

How grateful we are to have increased our monitoring with 2 more outdoor cam cameras, to prevent poaching of our precious wildlife during this difficult time. Thank you for helping us obtain these essential outdoor auto-capture cameras!

Due to your support, we have been able to acquire two new cam cameras. One is a Scout Guard Bolly Black Flash and the other one is a UO Vision Black Flash, a  more advanced cam that also sends signals to our cell phone of any action videoed during the day or night. Both of these cams operate by capturing night movements without having a flash that may warn off anyone walking past. We see many different species on the cams and it's always exciting to see leopard during their night prowls. 

The cam cameras helped us identify a hyena that entered our property from a surrounding area, that unfortunately had a snare around her neck. We were deeply distressed to see how she was suffering. We immediately notified our Regional Conservation body. Ezemvulu KZN Wildlife. They brought in a predator cage trap and baited it to hopefully capture her by luring her into the cage. Unfortunately, this was unsuccessful. Subsequently, the cage was removed but the bait was left in place. Our new cams clearly showed the movement of hyenas that were trying to approach the bait through a hole that they had dug under the fence. A voice cry apparatus was then set up to hopefully attract the female that had a snare on her neck. To date unfortunately we continue trying to lure her, and updates will be submitted.

Preventing suffering caused by snares is extremely important for the humane management of the wild. Of course, it is important to prevent the animal from being snared before it happens. Therefore we also have night watchmen that patrol and keep poachers away. Any intrusion is reported immediately and thankfully we have had no incidences since the hyena.  These loyal animal lovers' well-being, wages, and jobs also help them to provide for a number of extended family members as well. This is greatly appreciated.

We would like to invite interested volunteers that may wish to assist with snare sweeps and the deciphering of the cam reports. In the meantime, we are managing this on a daily basis with my personal observations and checking program.

Without your support, we would not have the encouragement to continue doing our very best!

Heartfelt thanks once again!