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As they approach the northern border of Tanzania, they face a human threat.
当它们接近坦桑尼亚北部边境时 面临着人类造成的威胁
An invisible web of wire snares.
一张无形的铁丝网陷阱
Snares. That's a new thing.
陷阱 这是新鲜东西
A wildebeest can get a smell of a lion, but this is a totally invisible thing to them.
角马能闻到狮子的气味 但铁丝网对它们来说完全是隐形的
We are the patrol teams, we normally do our intensive patrol.
我们是巡逻队 通常会进行密集巡逻
We go to the thickets looking for the poachers.
我们会去丛林里寻找偷猎者
Daniel Kijape heads up a team of 43 rangers who patrol the Kenya-Tanzania border.
丹尼尔·基贾佩领导着一支由43名护林员组成的队伍 他们在肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚边境巡逻
The poachers sneak across the fenceless border to hunt animals for bush meat using wire snares.
偷猎者偷偷越过没有围栏的边境 用铁丝网捕捉野生动物
You find that the wire snares are concentrated on the border, on the track where the animal passes.
你会发现边界处的铁丝网很集中 都在动物的必经之路上
So when the animal comes, gets in maybe their head, leg, it can kill many, many, many animals.
动物过来的时候 它们的头或者腿会卡进去 导致很多很多很多的动物死亡
During migration, every day they set 200 wires.
在迁徙期 他们每天会设置200个铁丝网陷阱
Those are 200 animals gone.
这意味着有200只动物会死亡
This is their busiest time, with huge numbers of migrating animals crossing the border from Tanzania into Kenya.
这时候他们最忙 有大量的迁徙动物从坦桑尼亚越过边境前往肯尼亚
Large numbers of animals on the move are an easy target for communities living on the edges of protected areas.
对生活在保护区边缘的群体来说 大量迁徙的动物很容易成为他们的攻击目标
It's a business.
这是一种商业行为
They come and see the animals and they capture.
他们过来看到动物 就会捕杀
They go and sell to the villages.
他们会去村子里卖掉动物
People eat that meat, it's food Poverty and a growing hungry population drives them, but it is illegal.
人们会吃动物肉 因为这里粮食匮乏 忍饥挨饿的人越来越多 但这是违法的
Tens of thousands of animals are poached every year across this region.
每年 这片区域有数以万计的动物被猎杀
If mortality continues to increase as human population increases, these numbers may become unsustainable and the wildebeest population could crash.
随着人口数量的增加 如果角马的死亡数量继续上升 那它们可能难以为继 角马种群可能会锐减
So you're finding that if you don't do intensive patrol, our animals are gonna become extinct.
所以如果我们不频繁巡逻的话 动物们可能会走向灭绝
We have hope.
人类还有希望
Why? Because we are there.
为什么 因为我们还坚守在这里
