We spent an afternoon bottling this past week. What's bottling, you ask? Well let me tell you all aboot it. Many of the ranches, government, what have yous, put up giant fences to keep squatters (herders and their animals) out or prevent poachers from getting all the game. However, a lot of the animals are fairly dense and tend to run directly into the fence thus ending in serious injury or even death (not good for conservation). To help the animals see the fence we tie plastic bottles to the fence. They move and rattle in the wind informing the animals to abort their kamikaze mission. Also it gives all those used plastic bottles a purpose here, other than filling landfills (aka random ditches and pits). Many of the farmers have also noticed and started tying up bottles or even cloth on their smaller fences as well (AWESOME).
While we were tying bottles we found a place where a zebra had tried to get through. There was a giant dent in the fence. How did we know it was a zebra? It had left some hair behind...
After we ran out of bottles we did a fence line drive checking the area. On our drive we found a snare. Poachers had rigged some wire in a loop trying to snag some wild game running along the fence. We took down the snare and stole the wire :) Win for conservation. Unfortunately, there are probably many more out there... but it's a start!
But to end with a positive here's Ginger enjoying the ride home :)
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