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A mountainous pile of confiscated snares lies behind Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers.

This huge pile consists of snares that had been confiscated over a one-year period in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.

Adam joined several rangers and community volunteers to build it.

They wanted to show the scale and urgency of the snare crisis in Africa. It took a week to build.

Snares are an affordable and effective method of catching wildlife.

Some communities use them because they’re in need of income and food security, but they’re also used by sophisticated poaching syndicates.