With dwindling numbers, rapid habitat loss including poisoning by farming communities, increasingly high numbers of lions are being both targeted and have become victims of reckless snaring. Below are some heart breaking images:
Video of poachers caught in the Mara Triangle with a young freshly skinned lion. As you can see his main has not fully developed yet.
Snared lioness
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Snared lioness
Bush Warriors 
April 29, 2010 at 7:43 pm
this is so sad, i am crying like wannabe in the rain. WE MUST STOP THIS NOW
August 24, 2010 at 1:32 am
hi im sophie and i HATE POACHING
NOT COOL
August 24, 2010 at 1:34 am
HI sophia we should do something about this