Visit to the Victoria Falls Antipoaching Unit (VFAPU)

As soon as we arrived in Victoria Falls, our friend Charles Brightman, the long-time head of the unit, welcomes us on the Zambezi.

Charles Brightman and Wolfgang Hennig on the Zambezi

We have Charles ...

... and his team I handed over an important and expensive piece of equipment to improve the fight against poaching.

Then we went on patrol with Charles.

However, the wound on his arm was not caused by a grazing shot, but by a thorn of a branch.

At the same time, his team found a young elephant.

When he was smaller, he had become entangled in a snare. As he grew, it had cut deep into his skin.

The elephant was anaesthetised and thus immobilised ...

... the snare was removed and the wound surgically treated.

The removed snare.

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