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[Lisbeth]

To be caught red-handed?

[Richprins]

Kruger Sightings
‏Verified account @LatestKruger
16m16 minutes ago

4:29 pm
Naked man on the move
S7, walking with a rock in his hand towards Phabeni Gate
Near Pretoriuskop

[Klipspringer]

Please note: SANParks discourages visitors from doing anything illegal just for their videos to be posted/gain views and following.

(Video uploaded 2011, 6M views, feeding of animals was illegal in 2011 as is today)

On FB they have the feeding bit!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/kruger. ... 295641456/

Good point!

[Lisbeth]

The video is 11 years old and the turtles are still behaving in the same way. Is this supposed to be Odie's fault? Come on, It's ridiculous. I am not a lover nor a user of Latests Sightings, but Sanparks is on a witch hunt IMO.

[Klipspringer]

It's in a way ridiculous, but then - with 6M views LS has made quite some money with a video displaying rule-braking.

Not really improving the conservationist reputation of this commercial enterprise

But quite an entertaining mud slinging game going on - waiting for the next episode


IMO, the background is that SANParks dislikes any commercial activity not paying any extra fees And I can understand that. If you want to make any money from the wildlife in the parks, you should pay for a license to operate your business and contribute to the conservation costs.

[Richprins]

Looks like the video has been removed on youtube?

[Lisbeth]

[Richprins]

[Lisbeth]

[Klipspringer]

From FB

https://www.facebook.com/groups/kruger. ... 687451456/

David Bough
Visual Storyteller · 3 Std.
I was truly disgusted today.

I came across the leopard sighting on the Gomondwane loop, S130. About 5 cars and one OSV. A young female leopard in a tree with mum resting in the bush keeping a weather eye. Everyone behaving perfectly, quiet, engines off.

Then they came....dozens and dozens of them. As soon as word got out on the guides radios, and on social media...YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE LASTES SIGHTINGS the whole sighting turned into a zoo.

How do I l know most of the self drive people had heard about the sighting on LS ? I asked them.....

Within 25 minutes there was shouting, jostling, dust and chaos.

The young leopard left the tree and sat with mum for a while and after ten minutes when everything got really crazy they turned tail and left. You could see the fear in her eyes.

The OSV regulars from Croc Bridge that I know behaved impeccably. I wish I could say the same for some of the others.

As I left , after managing to extracate myself, I was passed by car after car and OSV’s driving up from the crocodile bridge end, way over the speed limit with no regard for any of the other animals in the park.

It’s a narrow road as we know but the behaviour at the sighting and from those speeding to the sighting was unforgivable.

I was reminded of Sean de la Harper’s post about the leopard cub that was killed because of pressure from visitors.

Someone has to put a stop to this before we lose more of our beautiful leopard.