WORLD WORLDWIDE ANIMALS SOUTH AFRICA ANIMAL SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL News Journal Update - Electric fences in South Africa kill some 2,000 threatened pangolins every year!

 

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Help stop pangolins being fried to death by electric fences. Please help by making a donation now! Share Tweet Forward Dear,  Rare pangolins are racing towards extinction as the most trafficked mammal on the planet. More than one million of these gentle creatures have been snatched from the wild and slaughtered for their meat and scales over the past decade alone.  Credit: World Animal News Pangolins face many threats to their survival, including rampant poaching. However, another urgent threat has raised its ugly head in South Africa: electric fences pose one of the largest dangers to the survival of pangolins. When a pangolin comes into contact with electric fencing, its head or unprotected underbelly receives the initial jolt, and the animal will instinctively adopt its natural defense mechanism – rolling into a ball – and wrap itself around the live wire, getting repeatedly electrocuted. This usually leads to death – brutal, excruciating, and slow.  Between 1,000 to 2,000 pangolins are electrocuted on electric fences in South Africa EVERY YEAR! Sadly, most incidents are fatal. Please help by making a donation now! Credit: Oxpeckers.org Farmers and game reserves use electric fences to protect livestock and vulnerable wild animals. These fences are intended to keep the animals safe, but sadly, the very fences designed to protect them are also killing them, and the system must be changed. This is why we are writing to you today because we need your help to save these rare animals from extinction.  Please help by making a donation now! Credit: iStock Together with our partner Conserv Earth, we are building a 'buffer fence' in Mpumalanga, South Africa, to protect pangolins from electrocution. The initial ±12 mile (20 kilometers) fence has already prevented wildlife deaths. Completing the ± 43 mile (70 kilometers) fence could save 14+ pangolins annually.  Please help by making a donation now! Credit: Helena Atkinson If we can raise the initial $10,000 (£8,000) we can begin finishing the fence, safeguarding pangolins and other wildlife. Please donate to support this vital cause. Just think, for every $1.15 (£0.95) donated, we can purchase one mile (1,6 kilometers) of fencing to protect pangolins (and other vulnerable wildlife such as antelope, tortoises, and even cheetah). We have come this far, and now we just need that one last push. Please, DONATE NOW.  Every pangolin life saved brings them one step further from possible extinction. Please, will you help us? Please help by making a donation now! Electra, who miraculously survived being electrocuted. She was one of the few pangolins who made it out alive from the deadly fences. Credit: ASI: Taryn Slabbert Please help by making a donation now! The urgent need to protect vulnerable pangolins in South Africa cannot be overstated. These unique and gentle creatures face a grave threat from electrocution - but it is a threat we CAN mitigate with your help.  Credit: Wes Kus On The Line Please help by making a donation now! By constructing a buffer in front of deadly electric fences, we will save pangolins from excruciating electrocution, injury and DEATH. Please donate generously to Animal Survival International today.  Saving animals and the planet,   Campaign Director Animal Survival International P.S. Similar fatalities occur across Africa, but with an estimated four million miles (6,437,376 kilometers) of electric fencing installed in South Africa - with this number on the rise - the pangolin fatalities far overshadow every other African country. This project is a vital step in reducing the number of pangolins suffering brutal and excruciating deaths. Please donate right now to help save pangolins from a terrible and painful fate.  Please help by making a donation now!

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