WARNING – DISTRESSING CONTENT: The elephant was found in Kruger National Park, South Africa, suffering from grisly leg wounds after being snared in a poacher’s trap
An elephant in the Kruger National Park is rescued from a cruel cable snare(Image: Kruger National Park / @SANParksKNP)
An elephant’s pain from a grisly leg wound after being caught in a cable snare has been captured in heartbreaking photos.
The gentle giant was treated for a bloody gaping wound to its hind leg after being targeted by cruel poachers ‘for meat.’
The park’s official account posted: “A cable snare was removed from this elephant, and it was treated by KNP vets.”
Kruger’s Twitter account added that the the poaching technique was generally used to catch elephants for consumption.
It tweeted to queries from concerned followers: “It is the type of snare (cable wire is used) set for bush-meat trade, or subsistence poaching. The elephants step into the snare.”
A vicious cable snare bites into the elephant’s leg(Image: Kruger National Park / @SANParksKNP)