Kama Kawaida Daily Mail Latoa Taswira Za Majangili Jinsi Wanavyokatili Wanyama Mbuga ya Mikumi

 Weak: The animal was so sick it struggled to raise its head as park wardens approached

 Lucrative: Many of the snares are set by poachers who then butcher the animals for their parts which are used in traditional Chinese medicine

 Desperately injured: The young male lion cub was spotted in Mikumi National Park in Tanzania with a poacher's snare twisted cruelly round his neck

 Doomed to die: The wire was twisted so tight that the lion was unable to eat

The final journey: The lion slopes off into the long grass of the park where he would soon die either of starvation or infection

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Wire snare caught so tightly around his neck he cannot eat, this young male lion is doomed to die a slow and agonising death.Within a matter of days he will be lying in the African bush gasping his last breath.

Nor is he alone in his grim fate. The sight is increasingly common in parts of the continent when a growing number of lions have fallen victim to poaching.Kwa Habari zaid