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How Wire Snares Threaten the Wildebeest Migration
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 animals for bush meat, using wire snares.
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