Iseiya Rangers stop poachers from chasing Wildebeest into snares
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 03:33PM Last night we went out to the Kaserani Myugu area in Serengeti and came across a group of seven poachers who had just set their snares in the area.
Rather than waiting for the next day to see what their snares caught, the poachers were instead attempting to herd and chase the wildebeest towards the snares they had set.
When we arrived we found them chasing the wildebeest and so we also gave pursuit. The poachers were already spread out when we arrived and we were only able to make one arrest.
Rangers arrested one poacher.
Last night we also saw a lot of torches along the top of the escarpment, between 20-25 different spotlights, and it seemed that most of them were heading towards the park.
We returned to the area this morning and recovered five snares, sadly one wildebeest was caught.
Oloololo Team also went out yesterday and patrolled the Mpata area towards Kirindon whereby they arrested one person for destroying the forest.
Thank you everyone for your support so far, please help us by spreading the word further and telling all your friends.
Today there is a long line of wildebeest from the escarpment making their way to Purungat (Mara Bridge).
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Reader Comments (3)
Please keep up the amazing work that you do. I visited the Mara in 2007 and would love to come again. Sadly I think it will be a while yet until I can afford to go. How is Notch?
i heard notch is together with his sons! and his lioness, tamu's kids are all grown up. two of them that is. but tamu herself is no where to be found. once the poachers are caught, what do happen to them? does the government/judges just let them go free or just give them a very light fine or two day stay in jail? looks like the penalty is not working here at all since poaching is so common and poachers are like ants coming from all direction and never end!
In the last week Notch has had two different lovers.
I think we all understand that the law is not much of a deterrent for poaching.