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:-( its getting closer .Unfortunately one of the days a member of the public is going to get caught up in the middle of a poaching incident and it is not going to do the parks any favors in publicity for tourists.


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I think these are officials who are poaching so persistently near a gate. O**


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Rhino cow shot, dehorned as poachers strike again

Losses at a hard-hit private game farm near J-Bay now eight

BY SHAUN GILLHAM - 10 December 2018

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A white rhino cow was killed and her horns removed early on Sunday, bringing to four the number of rhino killed at the Lombardini Game Farm near Jeffreys Bay in just less than a month.

The cow was found with a single bullet wound to the head.

Eastern Cape provincial police, who, solely, are mandated to handle all rhino poaching inquiries, on Sunday confirmed the incident, saying it had taken place at 1.45am.

This follows a gruesome attack at the same game farm on the weekend of November 10 when poachers killed a pregnant cow, whose unborn calf could not be saved, and a bull, which died a few days after the attack.

The poachers involved in that attack were however unable to remove the horns from the two adult rhinos.

Lombardini owner Johan Lottering on Sunday confirmed the poaching incident, saying it had been carried out in the absence of a full moon.

To date, and across the country, attacks on rhinos have generally taken place in full-moon conditions.

“It was a shock, particularly because it took place during a dark moon,” Lottering said.

“The November incident also took place under similar conditions, a new moon and bad visibility. I think the poachers are getting braver.”

He said it was impossible to tell whether the same poacher or poachers were involved in the latest two attacks.

“What can we do?” Lottering lamented.

“We have to accept what has happened and put things in place to minimise these attacks,” he said, going on to compare the farm’s security challenges with other crimes.

“I mean, if they can steal electricity cables from the Gautrain, [imagine], what they [criminals] can do when you have 38km of fencing to secure.”

Lottering said the attackers had cut a section of fencing to access the property and shoot the rhino cow.

“We will have to look at increasing security and consider all measures to stop these incidents. We will have to establish a 24-hour guard on the property,” he said.

While the previous attack there is believed to have been carried out with a .375 rifle, Lottering said a smaller calibre weapon appeared to have been used in the latest incident, but it might have been a dumdum (expanding bullet) round.

This would have increased the effectiveness of the smaller calibre projectile.

The weekend attack marks the fifth time that rhino poachers have struck at the 1,200ha farm – which is between Jeffreys Bay, Humansdorp and St Francis Bay.

The latest attack brings the total number of rhino killed there to eight, which includes the unborn calf which died with its mother in November.

Police spokesperson Captain Khaya Tonjeni said: “. . . one animal was shot and horns hacked. All stakeholders were called and all resources deployed. The incident happened at 1.45am [on Sunday].”

Tonjeni, who revealed that detectives were still at the scene late on Sunday afternoon, said no arrests had been made yet.


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Dehorned rhino found dead at Shamwari
BY GARETH WILSON AND SIYABONGA SESANT - 21 February 2019

The carcass of a rhino has been found at the Shamwari Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth. This marks the first rhino poaching in the Eastern Cape for 2019 and the third killed on the reserve since mid-2018. The discovery was made late on Tuesday but officials returned to the scene on Wednesday to gather evidence.


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MOKONYANE: RHINO POACHING HAS REACHED ALARMING RATE IN SA

Although the numbers have declined by over 200 from last year compared to 2017, the minister said that too many rhinos are still being killed.

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JOHANNESBURG - Environmental Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says that rhino poaching has reached an alarming rate and new initiatives to deal with the crisis will be announced soon.

Although the numbers have declined by over 200 from last year compared to 2017, the minister said that too many rhinos are still being killed.

Mokonyane says there will be public consultations on how to deal with the issue.

"We have all these means that have made some improvement and given us the opportunity to go back to the drawing board and very soon there will be an announcement about the work the team is to consider."

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We have a very cleaver minister O/ O/

The day she wakes up all rhinos will be gone 0*\


Next trip to the bush??

Let me think......................
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Your government is part of the problem, you criminal!!!! 0*\ 0*\ 0*\

What clue does this minister have??

They don't give a damn about public consultations anyway, and are effectively committing treason.


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