by Adam Cruise | Dec 24, 2022 | News
By AFP South Africa plans to carry out lie detector tests on staff working at its game reserves in a bid to fight rampant wildlife poaching, a national parks management agency said Thursday. Poachers, sometimes operating in cahoots with crooked park employees, have...
by Adam Cruise | May 2, 2020 | News
By Philippe Alfroy, Agence France-Presse Under the golden, late afternoon South African sun, an elephant emerges from around the curve in a dusty path. Disturbed, the imposing animal raises its trunk to sniff out the four-wheeled intruder. “If he passes along the...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 15, 2020 | News
By JEROME DELAY- ASSOCIATED PRESS The 4-month-old elephant was found badly dehydrated in South Africa’s Kruger National Park days after hitting the sharp wire snare. HOEDSPRUIT, South Africa — Khanysia did not see the trap set by a poacher in South Africa’s...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 3, 2019 | News
By Lowvelder CROCODILE BRIDGE: Albert Gryvenstein, from Bossies Community Justice (BCJ), criticized the fact that approximately 60 elephants were allegedly driven across the South African border fence during the course of last week, at the confluence of the Komati and...