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Lions of Timbavati
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 (11-30-2020, 08:28 AM)Gijima Wrote: @BA0701 Sabi Sands (and all of Kruger) definitely has anti poaching units. The Timbavati used to allow trophy hunting so I’m wondering when they say “poached” do they mean hunted with full knowledge of the reserve? The Giraffe Male incident, like was mentioned here, is definitely more sketchy and I hope they are doing a better job fixing those fence so male lions don’t keep going “missing”. Oh, well that is great news @Gijima , and thank you for clarifying this. I got my information from a Willem Botha video, in which he was photographed having darted the Mapogos, and in that video he said one of the pictures included some of Sabi Sands' finest anti-poaching rangers, and that they are "sadly no longer there". That was exactly what lead me to inquire why a few months back. I have no doubt that some of these types of rangers can be corrupt, especially in impoverished areas, but then we have incidents like Cecil and the scumbag dentist and he gets away with such a thing. Tougher laws, and more importantly tougher enforcement of those laws is the only way to resolve such flagrant disregard for the law as we saw in the instance. The same can be said about Dreadlocks Mapogo, they find his hide in a hut, and from what I read nothing happened to the people who killed him. So long as enforcement is so lacking, there will never be a deterrent to such behavior. The people of these communities simply have to be taught the very real value of these creatures to their own lives, and until that happens such flaunting of the rules will continue, sadly. We won't even discuss how said dentist baited Cecil, and then attempted to conceal his crime by moving Cecil's radio collar all over the place to make it seem he was still alive. They never found his head and skin, and personally I believe it resides on that dentist's wall at home, all while he faced no legal jeopardy. |
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