Hunters shoot sleeping Rhino. Disgusting cowards!!!:X

this is a disgrace....we should be saving the rhino for future generations to enjoy this species

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... I'm against animal cruelty as much as anyone(perhaps more so as I'm a vegetarian) but the sentence given to this poacher is ridic - Rapists and murderers get less as do drug dealers - The law must be consistent if it is to be taken seriously -

Ek raak te bedonnerd as ek sulke goed hoor. Rather say nothing. Breaks my heart.

Chop both his hands off and have them mounted in his jail cell as his trophy, disgusting Baas Ted.

This is horrible stuff (td)

SOME GOOD NEWS...



Johannesburg - The Hawks on Sunday shot dead an alleged rhino poacher and injured another during a shootout in the Kruger National Park.

Captain Paul Ramoloka said the Hawks, in partnership with the special anti-poaching task force, received information about the alleged poachers who were spotted near the Sabi Sands private game reserve in Skukuza at around 14:00.

"When our team confronted the four men, they opened fire on the police who returned fire. One of the poachers was killed, another is in hospital while the other two were arrested," he said.

Police confiscated a hunting rifle, axe, saw and sedan used by the alleged poachers.

Ramoloka said the three men would be charged with attempted murder and being in possession of dangerous weapons.

"We are still trying to link the suspects with some of the rhino poaching which have taken place in the KNP over the past week."

According to SA National Parks (SANParks) the country had lost 528 rhinos since the beginning of 2012 and 320 of them were killed in the KNP.

This truely breaks my heart. One of the most beautiful animals i have ever seen in my life. I once had the privelage of seeing one up close.....amazing and muscular! I saw a baby as well......staying very close to the mom....

Craig Eudey Wrote:

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> I can understand there is a need sometimes to hunt
> animals,for food or to cull numbers. To me to look
> down on this beautiful animal who until 1 minute
> ago was resting, eating, caring for its young or
> anything else with a bright eye and full of health
> and now it is bloodsoaked/injured sometimes and in
> pain or mercifully dead with its eyes glazed over
> in a death stare, just because some call it sport,
> my heart bleeds for it! You cannot justify it in
> my books. Nature needs a hand sometimes but leave
> that to the professionals. 1 animal injured and
> not killed instantly with 1 shot is one to
> many!:X


Craig I agree 100% with your post !!

3 More poachers shot dead in Kruger this weekend... (tu)

Time to put the fence back up btw Mozi and Zuid Afrika.

Time for the chain gang prisoners to guard the borders. The murderers, rapist's, armed robbers sitting in jail robbing me daily of my tax money.....faark them...chain the bastards and let them guard our borders. For every 10 poachers they catch, they get 1 month off their sentence.

Johannesburg - A set of rhino horns has disappeared from the Assen police station outside Brits, Beeld reported on Wednesday.

The horns, one of two sets held at the police station since November, were confiscated after rhino poachers dehorned eight rhino at the Klipkopspruit private reserve near Sun City, in North West.

Hawks spokesperson Captain Paul Ramaloko said on Tuesday a theft docket had been opened.

"It is not clear how the horns disappeared, because there were no burglaries at the station."

The only people with access to the storeroom were police officers who had the key, he said.

Klipkopspruit's owner Miles Lappeman told Beeld he learned of the disappearance of the horns on Friday.

According to the newspaper, he received a letter from the department of environmental affairs two weeks ago asking him to remove the horns from the police station and asking for the address where they would be stored.

Lappeman said he had not been prepared to fetch the horns, as by supplying his address he would render himself and his family a crime target.

Greg, just read they stole 18 guns from a police station in Mpumalanga....it's all inside jobs.