150 seconds — that’s how long this treatment took, from first rope to finish. In fact, it happened so quickly that we slowed down the footage to see!
Giraffe operations are always a race against time. Powerful yet physiologically fragile, they cannot undergo full anaesthesia and must be semi-lucid during treatment.
But the stakes were even higher for this mother giraffe, who had a young calf nearby. Dr Limo of the SWT/KWS Tsavo Mobile Vet Unit darted her from the air, then ground teams sprinted in to manually restrain her and remove the snare. As you can see, it was a fast operation — fortunately, the wire hadn’t yet caused serious injury, and just 2.5 minutes after the treatment began, she was snare-free and reunited with her baby.
Every day, these lifesaving operations unfold across Kenya — each one made possible by donors like you. Your support enables us to provide emergency, in-the-field care to animals great and small, attending to more than 14,000 wild patients to date.
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