Lions of Timbavati

[Timbavati]

(07-18-2020, 07:50 PM)Matimbalani Wrote:

(07-18-2020, 03:27 AM)TinoArmando Wrote:

(07-18-2020, 03:10 AM)Matimbalani Wrote:

(07-18-2020, 02:47 AM)TinoArmando Wrote:

(07-18-2020, 02:42 AM)Matimbalani Wrote: I think the Nharus did manage to catch Shaka Mibiri alone and afterwards the Mbiris abandoned the core of their territory. So far as these things go, there will be some back and forth between the two coalitions until one is forced to abandon their claims for good. Since the Mayambula clubs are much older, I think the Mbiris may have started getting the itchy foot and start probing around for more prides to take over. 

Ultimately, I think the territory would be for the Vuyelas to take if they manage to avoid any death.

Personally, I don't think Timbavati is a good area for male lions. They do on occasion "disappear" in their prime specially if they are handsome specimens.

I understand what you are trying to say.
The hunting not is allowed anymore in the Timbavati. I believe that never has been allowed but the lions in Umbabat always were on risky there.
If I remember where the hunt used to happen with frequent was in the Northern of Timbavati... (If anyone know it well,Please correct me)

I have read in several places that Timbavati does allow hunting though not sure of the specifics of exactly which parts, how frequently etc. I would love to learn more and to know that the practice is banned.

In fact. 
Isn't allowed but as Umbabat not belongs to Timbavati there are other rules maybe. 
A example of Dribbler the Sohobele male: He was hunted If I remember correctly. they were dominant in the Northern Timbavati, Greg McCall-peat has post a picture of him saying that he was poached.
However,Where Greg work at that time wasn't allowed...
So I think depend of the location, But thank to god there not is allowed anymore. (At least for the last years none lion has disappeared as used to do before.)
Sometimes the people with each dissapearance of a lion they think that  is related with the trophy hunt, but without any proofs  they only are doing cover in mud the own reserve.
The Timbavati is open to three different reserves, Klaserie PNR, Thornybush Game Reserve, And the KNP, and i would dare to say that even is open to Balule, Despite is a far area. (The Fence between Timbavati and KNP was open in the 1993, time before that  were starting with Klaserie, Balule and the lately was Thornybush.) I don't know which reserve has dropping the fence first but is a good source to remember.

(I mean people in Facebook, Are spreading a lot of lies about the Timbavati when they even  not have investigared nothing about that area.)

Thanks for the info. I do hope that trophy hunting is banned as a matter of policy and that the ban persists through the current economic upheaval. There isn't a shortage of bored middle-age dentists with piles of cash.

Allowing for the invariable effluent that originates from Facebook, I don't doubt that trophy hunting is perhaps allowed in some of these reserves. After all they are private properties and even their titles "game reserve" attest to that origin.

Very agree with you.

At this point the Timbavati is a Private Nature Reserve Like Klaserie and Balule, I hope they not happen anymore in none place of South Africa and Africa! Reply