BeTreed Adventures

Why we hate snares.

Here is a mother banteng. Banteng are an endangered wild cow with worldwide population estimates being only about 3,000 or less. Is her leg infected? will she live? what will happen to her calf? Just a really sad story. This trail camera footage was taken about 1.5km from our house. Snares do not discriminate. Snares are easy to lay out. Snares kill anything. At this same location, there is also a pig with a bung leg too. One of the reasons why we do what we do here.

If you listen carefully you can hear the pheasant calling warnings to his family in the bushes

Really needed a better zoom on this but you can see Molly and her husband and the morning show we watched .. she was down here this morning and he was up on the mountain calling. She called once and 10 minutes later he was down here. If only all husbands were as obedient.

The Family

And.. here is the family

Banteng at the Big Jombok

This is hot off the camera trap (although dated wrong due to a flat internal battery in the camera).. this guy and his family spent a lot of time around one of our favourite jombok trees about 2 weeks ago! Bos javanicus, banteng IUCN Redlisted: Endangered

Endangered Banteng at BeTreed

This is probably the best video we have ever captured of these beautiful wild cattle, the banteng of which there are only 5000 or so left in their native habitat (side point - Australia where they are not native, probably has the world's largest population!!)

Limping Banteng

Following on from the last post on snaring.. here is a banteng captured in our forest who had been snared.. with a distinct limp