Avoca male lions

[Duco Ndona]

There are no official numbers on how many and which animals are euthanized. The reserve does not release such numbers nor does the team dealing with it have any presence on the internet. So we only hear about it when a guide mentions it or through some other means. 

From what I understand the typical cases are cases where an individual animal has been hurt beyond any hope of survival. But would still have to face a slow agonizing death. 
Sending the animal off in these cases are concidered not intervening with nature as the animal would have died regardless soon anyway. 

Other cases where its done is when there is an outbreak of a severe dangerous illness such as Rabies. When animals grow to comfortable with human activity. (E.G. harrasing people for food) Or when animals escape from the reserve and pose a direct risk to humans but there is no room in the reserve to relocate them towards. Reply