11/09/2026
Last month half of the Mulberry Mongoose team travelled across Zambia to Livingstone, heading to Livingstone's Department of National Parks and Wildlife, where there was a huge store of accumulated confiscated poachersā snare wire. In over just four days our team cut up approximately 2000 snares.
Today is World Rhino Day, and Livingstone is particularly significant. Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is home to Zambiaās only population of white rhinos, which are closely protected by DNPW scouts.
Snares can catch rhino, elephant, antelope or any other animal that comes across one. Removing the wire from the bush is only part of the job. Permanently destroying, and turning it into jewellery that donates back to wildlife conservation, means those traps cannot be used again.
Sadly 2000 is just a small number in comparison to recent scientific research suggesting that tens of millions of snares may be set across Africa every year.
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