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Mar
Snaring hippos & smoking their meat

Hippo snaring is still going on as you know, depressingly enough.

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My Rangers came across this hippo snare on patrol last week. In fact they came across 3 in total, just like this, not far from Ishango.

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Poachers, once the hippo has been killed, smoke the meat on sticks like this so that it can be sold illegally in the local markets.

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We still don’t get how anyone can do this. With populations increasing only in Ishango, and only at snail’s pace, we simply cannot allow ourselves to lose any more hippos. As I have said before, 20 years ago there used to be 28,000 hippos in Lake Edward. Today we are lucky if we reach 500.

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4 Comments posted on "Snaring hippos & smoking their meat"
Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL on March 4th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

Atamato, these numbers are truly alarming! What else can be done, can we help with a new program or expand one in place? I’m guessing all we can do is increase our donations for more rangers…


Pirjo,Finland on March 5th, 2008 at 5:27 am

Atamato, thank you again for the information about hippos. It’s very alarming as Theresa already said. How much difference does educating the local people of the importance of wildlife, or is it simply down to the fact that you need to employ more rangers to do the conservation work?


Wanda, Atlanta on March 5th, 2008 at 9:20 am

The numbers scare me and everyone else - why in the world do they not scare your country - they could be gone for good - they don’t seem to get it at all! You guys do a wonderful job with what you can do - but they just lay more snares and more snares for you to find!


Raynaam on March 24th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

thank you, dude


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