KZN community feasts on culled lions as revenge for livestock killing

[Thugscub]

When there is nothing left, what's next on the menu?

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Yirre let me get this right...

Community cuts fence to illegally poach game.

Open fence allows dangerous wild animals to escape, including lions.

Community demands that lions be killed and demands local community employment to repair the broken fence.

Am I understanding this correctly??

Welcome to The New Dawn...

 

[schumi]

Angry community shuts Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park gate, sets alight guard hut after repeated wildlife escapes

A guard hut was set alight and a park entrance gate shut to the public during a community protest at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi game reserve at the weekend, sparked by the recent escape of several lions and other dangerous wildlife species.


Police were also called in to disperse protesters after a community sit-in protest at the park’s western Cengeni gate near Ulundi on Saturday. The park, established 145 years ago to protect a remnant population of white rhinos, is Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife’s flagship wildlife reserve.

According to Ezemvelo, community members stole cellphones, food and a piece of sophisticated rhino anti-poaching equipment from the nearby ranger accommodation quarters. A guard hut next to the Cengeni entrance gate was set alight and solar panels used to power an electrified fence were vandalised.

The protest was sparked by a series of recent escapes by dangerous animals, including lions, rhino, buffalo and elephant. In one incident last week, a 45 year-old woman was hospitalised after being knocked over by a white rhino outside her home near the park’s western boundary fence.

A pride of five lions was shot and killed by Ezemvelo wildlife officers on 14 August after breaking out for the third time in a matter of weeks and killing several cattle

More at: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...ht-guard-hut-after-repeated-wildlife-escapes/

(Pics in link contains a picture of a dead animal)

 

[Harmonic]

A friend of mine does a lot of work with Ezemvelo, cutting of fences and the use of snares for bush meat along the borders is a common problem.

It's not even just along the borders. An acquaintance has a farm on the Garden Route on the border of a township. Their dogs have been caught in the snares multiple times, one even died

 

[mojoman]

Angry community shuts Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park gate, sets alight guard hut after repeated wildlife escapes



More at: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...ht-guard-hut-after-repeated-wildlife-escapes/

(Pics in link contains a picture of a dead animal)

Steal steal steal...Destroy destroy destroy
Cannae helps themselves...


(I actually said to a familiy member last week that if they still want to see wildlife in game reseves then they best make plans to visit...time is runnning out...)

 

[mojoman]

It's not even just along the borders. An acquaintance has a farm on the Garden Route on the border of a township. Their dogs have been caught in the snares multiple times, one even died

I cycle and run and always have a small pair of pliers in my bag...
Everywhere I look...Snares...and trees being cut to the ground...
Was really bad during lockdown...

Destroy destroy destroy....

 

[Gyre]

I cycle and run and always have a small pair of pliers in my bag...
Everywhere I look...Snares...and trees being cut to the ground...
Was really bad during lockdown...

Destroy destroy destroy....

Starve starve starve....

 

[Mista_Mobsta]

I cycle and run and always have a small pair of pliers in my bag...
Everywhere I look...Snares...and trees being cut to the ground...
Was really bad during lockdown...

Destroy destroy destroy....

Absolutely incredible! Its so so sad that the animals are suffering due to the idiocy of the surrounding communities. I am sure if we go back 147 years, we would find much less, if any, community members living so close to the park perimeter.