Laying an ambush for poachers remains one of the most effective means of capturing poachers. Rangers go out as a result of information from an informant or a TrailGuard report to a location they  expect to be able to reach in advance of the poacher.  And then they wait. And they may have a long wait - hours - perhaps days. And all the time they are waiting they must both remain ever-vigilant and  undetectable - silent. It is a dangerous undertaking. In Kenya several years ago, rangers had set up an ambush at the Tana River Bridge. Then they let there guard slip. The Somali shifta poachers,...


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