Animal welfare campaigners have long been calling for England to ban cruel and indiscriminate snare traps to bring the country in line with Wales and Scotland ...

As the wildebeest herd moves north through the border regions with Tanzania, it faces a human threat: an invisible web of wire snares. Poachers sneak across the fenceless border from Tanzania to hunt ...

Snaring -- a non-selective method of poaching using wire traps -- is widespread in tropical forests in Southeast Asia. Snaring decimates wildlife populations and has pushed many larger mammals to ...

More tigers live in captivity than exist in the wild. This Sumatran tiger lives at the Big Cat Sanctuary in England, 2017 (Photo by Tom Lee) CAMBRIDGE, UK, July 29, 2017 (ENS) – Illegal wire snare ...

Nagpur: Twenty-four tigers and 110 leopards choking to death in forests across the country in the last nine years after getting entangled in wire snares laid for herbivores seem to be just tip off the ...

Nagpur: With tigers increasing falling prey to wire snares laid to kill herbivores, state’s chief wildlife warden Maheep Gupta has ordered to conduct regular anti-snare drives in and around wildlife ...

Snares are the leading cause of death among Sri Lanka’s leopards, accounting for 42 recorded deaths in the past 10 years. The most recent death was of a rare black leopard, which succumbed to its ...

A lion in Kenya was found trapped in a wire snare that was cutting off his paw. The big cat had stepped into the snare, which was becoming tighter and tighter around his paw as he struggled to escape, ...

Across Southeast Asia, wild animals are being hunted out of existence to feed growing demand for bushmeat, according to conservationists. Thomas Gray, science director with conservation group Wildlife ...

Snaring – a non-selective method of poaching using wire traps – is widespread in tropical forests in Southeast Asia. Snaring decimates wildlife populations and has pushed many larger mammals to local ...