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A very sad lost of a rhino at Umbabat (Greater Kruger National Park)
Umbabat Nature Reserve is situated on the bank of the Nhlaralumi River in the Bushbuckridge Municipality, adjacent to the Kruger National Park.  

It grieves us to advise that a wounded female Rhino has had to be euthanised following a poaching incident. The matter is under further investigation by SAPS and the other relevant Authorities. The reserve, at present, has no known suspects.
A poaching incident, particularly one so brutal and lacking in compassion, and irrespective of the Reserve in which it occurs, is a loss for all of us – on many levels.
Whether this rhino was poached upon the Umbabat, or whether it walked into the Umbabat in a wounded state is irrelevant to the shocking reality of what occurs all around us on almost a daily basis.
UPNR Management and staff will therefore continue with its endeavours, however the circumstances are frustrating and the resources are limited, together with our neighbouring partner reserves, to protect our Reserves, our fauna and flora, our visitors, our human life and one another.

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