SNARE REMOVAL IN NORTH SUMATRA

The Rangers of Tangkahan have begun an intensive snare removal programme in forest edge communities in North Sumatra. Recently they removed 30 snares in less than 3 days while surveying the buffer zone between the Gunung Leuser National Park and the communities who live on it's border. Human-wildlife conflict is rampant in this area, one of the worst affected along the Gunung Leuser, which is one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth and the LAST place where Sumatran orangutans, elephants, tigers and rhino co-exist. 

Snares are indiscriminate - a noose made from wire or rope will catch any species unfortunate enough to walk into it. Earlier this year a critically endangered Sumatran tiger was caught in one of the communities the rangers have started work with. Tigers, sun bears, monitor lizards, deer, young elephants, porcupines - the list of species in danger is endless and we need YOUR support to help stop this and protect them.  

For $10 you can help the rangers implement a snare removal programme and help keep them patrolling these communities living so close to critically endangered wildlife. $10 will enable the rangers to destroy and remove one snare trap and educate the local communities about the need to protect wildlife and the forest. Now, more than ever, your support is needed to help put an end to this. Thank you for your generosity and support of this community conservation programme - the first of it's kind in North Sumatra.