Rhino Poaching 2015

[Bushcraft]

Agreed, but sometimes a little more is never enough. One either has the morals, ethics and cares or one doesn’t

[Lisbeth]

Sad thing RP is that money talks and if you earn a small salary and these chinese offer thousands of rands you don't think twice

agree... but maybe it was easy to pay a bit more the staff.... before

Staff are not meant to be in their vocations for the money, nana...that is a misconception, IMO!

If you cannot live decently the vocation will not last, especially for those who did not have it from the start, but desperately needed a job.

[nan]

thank you Liz to come to my rescue
never easy to see "people... foreigners in paricular with so much money at disposal

[Flutterby]

Rhino family found butchered and dehorned in KZN

CNS Reporter/Dave Savides
27.5.2015 01.10 pm

Three white rhino have been found brutally butchered and dehorned at Charters Creek, KwaZulu-Natal.

A postmortem estimated the bull, cow and calf to have been shot and killed about a week before the discovery on Sunday, Zululand Observer reported.

“Ezemvelo field rangers on a routine patrol on the Western Shores of Lake St Lucia, southwest of Charters Creek, found the family group of three rhino, which included a calf, poached and all their horns hacked off and taken by the perpetrators,” said iSimangaliso CEO Andrew Zaloumis.

“Rhino poaching in KZN has continued in 2015 at the same rate as 2014, with a shocking average of two rhino being per poached week. Sadly the iSimangaliso Wetland Park has not escaped this ruthless slaughter and dreadful onslaught on all our heritage.”

With another rhino carcass found at the Mkhuze Game Reserve on Saturday, the KZN rhino death toll has risen to 38 this year.

Zaloumis added Ezemvelo, who are the responsible agency for wildlife protection in iSimangaliso, confirmed they have stepped up patrols in the area.
“Investigations are continuing from the SAPS Hawks unit and Ezemvelo staff. They have the full and active support of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority,” said Zaloumis.

This after Outraged South African Citizens Against Rhino Poaching (Oscap) revealed more than three rhino are poached every day. That is if you take the latest available statistics, according to which 365 rhino have been poached since the beginning of the year, 270 of them in the Kruger National Park. The figure was obtained from Oscap, as the environmental affairs department does not release the statistics on a monthly basis any longer. According to Oscap director, Allison Thomson, the organisation has resources available to assist with the collation of the poaching statistics.

Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa said on March 3, in reaction to a question by DA’s shadow minister of environmental affairs Terri Stander, that her department was only in a position to release the rhino-poaching statistics “quarterly or so”. The minister stated her department did not have the resources available to publish these statistics more regularly.

– Caxton News Service

[PennyinSA]

A friend has just contacted me from the Park - she is staying there and was extremely distressed to find a dehorned and poached rhino on a road to Satara. I know they had bookings at Tambotie so it must have been on the road to the Orpen Gate. Will this ever end?

[Richprins]

On a tourist road?....how brazen!

[Alf]

Poor rhino

[Flutterby]

[RogerFraser]

From Facebook Press Release :
SANParks Honorary Rangers
Stricter movement control in Kruger National Park for the welfare of rhino

Kruger National Park (KNP) has installed three boom gates on access roads north of the Sabie River; into an area designated as Intensive Protection Zone (IPZ). The IPZ is a portion where a combination of resources and technology which provide a more secure environment for the rhino in the Park, have been intensified. The boom gates are meant to control night movement of people in order to minimize risk factors associated with late travelling between sunset and sunrise.

The boom gates will be manned by the Rangers and will be operational effectively from Friday, June 5, 2015. The IPZ barriers are found on: H1-2 road north-east of the Sand River low water bridge, H12 road – on the Sabie high level bridge and on H10 between Lower Sabie and Tshokwane.

“We are continuously taking steps to increase security in the Park in our quest to continue to provide security for our rhino which is severely under attack by poachers. Restrictions at these areas will allow us to closely monitor the movements associated with nightfall;” said the KNP’s General Manager: Communications and Marketing, William Mabasa.

Part of the IPZ’s long term plan is to also improve fencing on both western and eastern borders; which will include fixed obstacles. “These strategies are expected to improve on assessment in terms of surveillance, early warning and detection” concluded Mabasa.

Issued by:
South African National Parks

[Lisbeth]

improve fencing on both western and eastern borders

Only now they are fencing the eastern border