WHY?!? 😡 😢
Imagine yourself walking through the tropical forest with your two cubs, and suddenly falling into a snare trap.
Terrified, you and your babies struggle, clawing at the surrounding trees, trying again and again to free yourselves. The snare tightens around your paws or your neck, and with every movement of struggle and twisting, it tightens further and begins to cut through your fur to penetrate your flesh. No matter how hard you fight, the wire does not break ~ it eventually sinks through your tendons down to the bone.
Death is slow and agonizing, and can last for weeks.
Some Tigers, driven to despair, end up gnawing off their own limbs, only to later die from blood loss.
This is what happened to a Sumatran Tigress and her two cubs.
The association Planète Tigre has been working for over 10 years on the island of Sumatra to try to curb this major conflict between human activities and the survival of Tigers.
Leuser Conservation Forum
dismantle 200 to 300 snares every year. One year, they removed more than 1,000!
🎦 Credit: @RacingXtinction.