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09-07-2020, 11:50 AM( This post was last modified: 01-17-2021, 10:30 AM by Herekitty )
In June 2018 the dominant western Pride male known as Skye was hunted and killed with permission from the Mpumalunga Parks and Tourism Authority. The Ingwelala Reserve Board was informed that permission had been granted for an American tourist to hunt one male lion in the adjacent Umbabat Reserve, and did their best to ensure that Skye wasn't killed, since he was the dominant male of the Western Pride, but MPTA sent the hunting outfit a photo of one of the two Eastern males (also known as Machimba males) mistakenly thinking it was Skye, and so the hunters went ahead and killed Skye. Following his death, there was a huge uproar in the media in South Africa and hopefully these incidents are on the decline. Images by Chad Cocking in Motswari, 2016.
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Image by Charlie Lynam at Motswari 2017.
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Image by Andre Podbielski at Ingwelala, 2017.
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Image by Esmareth Knight at Ingwelala, July 2017.
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Image by Turid Aasram at Motswari, posted August 2020.