Kruger national park
Kruger Park sees concerning increase of Indian mynahs
John Maytham spoke to conservationist Dr Llewellyn Foxcroft about this invasive species in the park.
This follows reports that residents in Hazyview - which is just a few kilometres outside the park took to the streets on Thursday morning.
Residents who live near the Kruger National Park have resorted to recycling to avoid climate change disasters.
The strain of TB that has been seen in these rhinos is referred to as Bovine TB and can be seen in a variety of different animals in the park.
John Maytham talks to managing executive of the Kruger National Park, Gareth Coleman, about the park's R370 million renovation it will undergo over the next three years.
Eyewitness News’s Boikhutso Ntsoko catches a lift on the Kruger National Park’s flight to curb zoonotic diseases to bring us these images.
They were caught with unlicensed firearms and ammunition by field rangers on Wednesday night.
This follows the release of a report last week by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment confirming that seven rhino had been killed in the park recently.
Management at the Kruger National Park has confirmed that a filling station at the Lower Sabie camp has burnt down after it was struck by lightning on Sunday.
The mangled body was discovered on Thursday during an intelligence operation aimed at preventing poaching, Kruger spokesperson Isaac Phaahla told AFP.
It’s understood the suspect allegedly ran over the animal near the Punda Maria camp on Friday.
Shangani Mathebula, Emmanuel Mdhluli and Walter Hendrik Mangane were arrested in 2017 for killing three rhinos in Marula, in the south section of the Kruger National Park.
The bulk of the slaughter happened at the Kruger National Park where 132 rhinos were killed.
Dominic Majola writes that the early morning sound of hyenas in the Kruger was a wake-up call that made it very real for her that humans are not the only ones occupying planet Earth.
Rangers led operations at the Pretoriuskop section in the south of the park last week where the men were nabbed in two separate incidents.
Their population in the park has increased from 120 animals in 2009 to between 300 and 350.
Rangers on routine patrol spotted three poachers who ran into the elephant herd while trying to flee.
The court, which boasts a 100 % rhino poaching conviction rate, had not been operating for over a year due to a legal battle waged by the Mpumalanga Regional Court’s president, Naomi Engelbrecht, who sought to have it closed and its cases transferred to the Mhala Court.
Several roads and bridges in the nature reserve have been swamped and some of it's camps are still inaccessible.