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Team Rescues Mother Elephant Walking in Pain With Hunter’s Snare Cutting Into Her Leg
A heroic wildlife rescue team has managed to save a mother elephant’s life after she was spotted wandering the plains in Zimbabwe with a hunter’s snare attached to her leg.
Catherine Norton, 58, a conservationist living in Zimbabwe, was called to the Musango Island Safari Camp after the owner saw the adult elephant, named Martha, struggling to walk. Catherine Norton (C) along with the wildlife rescue team helping an elephant with a hunter’s snare attached to its leg. (Caters News)
Catherine said: “We had to immobilize Martha, because without our intervention she would have died.