Animal poaching at Kruger Park is rife

April 20 2007 at 03:37PM

A total of 94 animals, including 20 white rhino, were killed by poachers in the Kruger National Park last year, Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Friday.

Also on the list of animals poached in South Africa's flagship reserve were 35 impala, 15 buffalo and three lions, according to a written reply by the minister to a parliamentary question.

The list covers the 12 months from April 1, 2006, to end March this year.

Other animals poached included four zebra, three waterbuck, one elephant and a crocodile, Van Schalkwyk said.

Sapa

What only 1 Elephant ?
There is so many of them how could they have missed them ?

I'm also wondering from which side of the reserve poaching are mostly done ? West SA side or East Mozambique side.

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Originally posted by Safari-Hunt:
I'm also wondering from which side of the reserve poaching are mostly done ? West SA side or East Mozambique side.

Methinks mostly from the INSIDE, by rangers!

Good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

I was in anti Poaching for a couple of years around the borders of the Kruger and I am quite sure those figures could be doubled, if not trebled. If those figures are correct they are doing a fantastic job!

At least those are the ones they know of, the couple of which they found the carcass.