buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys; Photos provided by SANParks and the Mpumalanga Parks Agency On a cold Sunday morning a team from the Moholoholo Rehabilitation Centre in Hoedspruit set out to rescue a snared leopard in the bushes of a Komatiland plantation in Agatha, Tzaneen. Not certain what they would find, they were horrified […]
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buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys; Photos courtesy of Pexels, Unsplash, Pxhere and Pixabay South African farmers face a range of challenges: worsening weather patterns; land issues; increasing criminal activities, such as stock theft and farm attacks as well as the illegal hunting with dogs on their farms. Over the past decade, these hunting activities
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buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys Images courtesy of Diviantart, Pixabay and Pixels Most people think that environmental or wildlife crimes are relatively isolated incidents, involving individual poachers or perhaps small groups of poachers who kill animals for profit. It is not a crime where animals are the sole victims as the reality is that
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buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys Photos courtesy of Flicr and Wikimedia It was a dark, moonless night in Namaqualand when a local man completed a sale. The next moment he was surprised as vehicles with flashing blue lights appeared out of the darkness and a police member from the Stock Theft and Endangered Species
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