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by John Grobler
Yesterday at 2:14pm · Windhoek, Namibia · Edited ·
Preliminary and unconfirmed information out of Etosha indicates as many as 85 carcasses may have been found since the last update. Not clear yet if this includes previously reported 43 cases. Most recent one appear to be five fresh carcasses, all in western Etosha.
Information is most of them were shot in close vicinity of the warden service roads, and 93x62mm casings have been recovered. Those 9mm Mausers were standard issue to game wardens since the days of Roché, and for obvious reasons.
I suggest it is time the MET invites Etosha's deputy director Boas Erckie and Chief Control Warden Rehabeam Erckie to Windhoek for a press conference, and that the MET management also be present.
Please bring us the gun register for Etosha along, as well as all receipts for ammunition purchases of the past two years. Please also bring us a list of all MET and NWR employees currently employed in Etosha. We'd ask for a list of their dependents and long-term guests as well, but we doubt it is possible to get all that together in the limited time we have available.
Please also invite the other ENP divisional head Laimi Erckie along - we have some questions to ask of the PS in your presence, like why three out of four divisional heads in Etosha are family members. Or if it is true that the deputy director's wife is the MET stock clerk in charge of purchasing Etosha's stocks in Windhoek.
And please, above all, bring us an explanation of how any of was at all possible without the involvement of the park management itself being deeply involved. Poaching by staff - chasing lion off their kills and stealing the meat to sell in Outjo or Okahao - has been going on since the mid-90s and is an open secret.
How come no-one heard any shots or saw any vehicles - ever? No-one saw tracks where they were not supposed to be - unless those were in fact official vehicles' tracks on those service roads?
The world is demanding answers from you, gentlemen. You have not been looking after our heritage very well.
Yesterday at 2:14pm · Windhoek, Namibia · Edited ·
Preliminary and unconfirmed information out of Etosha indicates as many as 85 carcasses may have been found since the last update. Not clear yet if this includes previously reported 43 cases. Most recent one appear to be five fresh carcasses, all in western Etosha.
Information is most of them were shot in close vicinity of the warden service roads, and 93x62mm casings have been recovered. Those 9mm Mausers were standard issue to game wardens since the days of Roché, and for obvious reasons.
I suggest it is time the MET invites Etosha's deputy director Boas Erckie and Chief Control Warden Rehabeam Erckie to Windhoek for a press conference, and that the MET management also be present.
Please bring us the gun register for Etosha along, as well as all receipts for ammunition purchases of the past two years. Please also bring us a list of all MET and NWR employees currently employed in Etosha. We'd ask for a list of their dependents and long-term guests as well, but we doubt it is possible to get all that together in the limited time we have available.
Please also invite the other ENP divisional head Laimi Erckie along - we have some questions to ask of the PS in your presence, like why three out of four divisional heads in Etosha are family members. Or if it is true that the deputy director's wife is the MET stock clerk in charge of purchasing Etosha's stocks in Windhoek.
And please, above all, bring us an explanation of how any of was at all possible without the involvement of the park management itself being deeply involved. Poaching by staff - chasing lion off their kills and stealing the meat to sell in Outjo or Okahao - has been going on since the mid-90s and is an open secret.
How come no-one heard any shots or saw any vehicles - ever? No-one saw tracks where they were not supposed to be - unless those were in fact official vehicles' tracks on those service roads?
The world is demanding answers from you, gentlemen. You have not been looking after our heritage very well.