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Another orphan at Nwanedi Nature Reserve (Limpopo)

Renosterkoei voor kalf afgemaai
27 June 2013

‘n Maandoue renosterkalfie het Dinsdag verwese gestaan en treur by die karkas van sy ma en kort-kort aan haar gelek.

Die ma is vroeër in die Nwanedi Natuurreservaat, in die Tshipise-omgewing, afgemaai vir haar horings. ‘n Ondersoekspan het Dinsdag op die kalfie afgekom waar hy by sy ma gestaan het en aan droë bloed probeer ruik en lek het.

Die bulkalfie word geskat op sowat ‘n maand oud. Sy gehuil het selfs van die mees geharde lede van die ondersoekspan byna in trane gehad. Die kalfie is kort na die gru-ontdekking na ‘n plek van veiligheid geneem waar hy versorg sal word.

Teen druktyd was die ondersoekspan nog warm op die spoor van die stropers. ‘n Nadoodse ondersoek was vir Donderdag beplan om te kyk of daar dalk ‘n koeël in die witrenosterkoei se karkas gekry kan word om ballisties te toets.

Intussen is ‘n inwoner van Makhado (Louis Trichardt), Yahya Shoeb Jiwa (45), vier jaar direkte gevangenisstraf opgelê, nadat hy uitgevang is terwyl hy renosterhorings probeer koop het van ‘n polisie-agent.

Tydens sy vonnisoplegging het ‘n ondersoekbeampte van die Kruger Nasionale Park (KNP) se Misdaadeenheid, mnr. Mario Scholtz, getuig dat daar tans drie renosters per dag in Suid-Afrika gedood word vir hul horings.

Daar is sedert die begin van die jaar al 428 renosters in Suid-Afrika doodgeskiet en hul horings verwyder. Dit is volgens die nuutste statistieke wat die Departement van Omgewingsake op 20 Junie uitgereik het. Van hierdie getal is 45 renosters in Limpopo doodgemaak en 267 in die Kruger Nasionale Park.

Video: Rhino calf mourns slain mother

These guys phoned Petronel this morning for some advise on getting him stable. If they have any difficulty the guys from Working on Fire are on standby to go and fetch him with the helicopter and bring him to Care for Wild. He is only 3 weeks old which could pose a big problem

Three weeks is very young. I hope that he survives.

Should they not get him to the centre asap???

They want to try and raise him on their own

To translate briefly:

"On Tuesday a month-old calf was found licking his dead mother's dried blood and vocalising loudly, causing even the most hardened invetigators to become emotional. He has been taken to a place of safety. This was in Nwanedi Reserve, near Tshipise. Ballistics were to be done today on the bullets. Then a poacher arrest blah blah, unrelated."

But, this is where "our" equipment will save lives!

Sprocky wrote: But, this is where "our" equipment will save lives!

Correct Sprocs. There's a lot of politics and egos in this business. Petronel is still trying to convince them

Hi Penga I may as well admit that I avoid this thread though very aware!!

I do this because what comes along with this senseless slaughter are scenes
of distraught and suffering of animals that mean no harm too humans!!
As we always stare into their eyes for meaning, so do they stare into our eyes
asking questions!!

I cannot but only feel obligated to answer these questionable stares in a dying
situation. Hence I rather overlook and not see mortal animal plea.

Not a very good shadow that I cast upon me, for casting a blind eye to these
kind of scenes will not help the animals in question neither society at large and
best me, at all!! I have a problem that urgently needs to be addressed!!

It hurts!!