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99% of all poached meat is smoke cured to preserve it before it is taken back to the villages to be sold. This is done on a smoking/drying rack | A typical rainy season poachers camp. | |
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A typical rainy season poachers camp, the frame supports a plastic tarpaulin. | ||
Camps are burnt when they are found, this lets poachers know their hideout was found. |
Foot patrols during the off season | A team scans the horizon for any signs of a poachers camp fire | Getting stuck is a big problem during the off season while it is raining |
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Traditional techniques involve making a hive out of tree bark, bark is removed from a living tree, killing. The situation has become so dire that it has pushed some indigenous tree species to the brink of local extinction. |
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