Driven by the illegal bushmeat trade, snaring has exploded in recent years. Rudimentary yet lethal, these noose-like traps are anchored to a fixed point and left to catch any animal that passes through. They have an indefinite lifespan and are as indiscriminate as they are deadly. While poachers set snares to catch bushmeat — meat trafficked and sold on a commercial scale — they can maim or kill any creature, from the smallest dik-dik to the largest elephant.

Join Benjamin and our SWT/KWS Ithumba Anti-Poaching Team as they follow poachers' tracks and confiscate snares set in the landscape. Every day, these patrols unfold across Kenya. We operate 30 Anti-Poaching Teams in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service, working to secure key ecosystems and protect the creatures who call them home.

Among their many skills, rangers are able to spot snares that would be invisible to most, sparing untold wild lives in the process. Last year alone, our teams confiscated 13,978 snares — each one representing at least one life saved.