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Two rhinos shot at Queenstown reserve
ANOTHER STATISTIC: A rhino killed 10 days ago on a reserve in the mountains near Queenstown
TWO more rhinos have been killed on a game reserve on the outskirts of Queenstown over the past two weeks, bringing the death toll in the Eastern Cape to 12 since January – the highest annual number of deaths ever in the province.
The two white rhinos, both breeding bulls, were shot dead with high-powered hunting rifles on the Wildschutsberg Game Reserve in the Stormberg Mountains near Queenstown.
The first one was killed 10 days ago, but the poachers failed to remove the horns. The second was killed on Sunday, its horns hacked off with a panga or saw.
Now Eastern Cape rhino owners, worried that poachers are being squeezed out of other provinces by tighter security and are looking for easier targets, have raised concerns about security measures in the province.
Organised crime unit detectives, forensic experts and environmental authorities were still at the game reserve yesterday afternoon, searching for clues.
The rhinos were shot with a .458-calibre hunting rifle.
This is in contrast to previous poaching incidents in the province when the rhinos were darted with a lethal dose of a veterinary drug.
ANOTHER STATISTIC: A rhino killed 10 days ago on a reserve in the mountains near Queenstown
TWO more rhinos have been killed on a game reserve on the outskirts of Queenstown over the past two weeks, bringing the death toll in the Eastern Cape to 12 since January – the highest annual number of deaths ever in the province.
The two white rhinos, both breeding bulls, were shot dead with high-powered hunting rifles on the Wildschutsberg Game Reserve in the Stormberg Mountains near Queenstown.
The first one was killed 10 days ago, but the poachers failed to remove the horns. The second was killed on Sunday, its horns hacked off with a panga or saw.
Now Eastern Cape rhino owners, worried that poachers are being squeezed out of other provinces by tighter security and are looking for easier targets, have raised concerns about security measures in the province.
Organised crime unit detectives, forensic experts and environmental authorities were still at the game reserve yesterday afternoon, searching for clues.
The rhinos were shot with a .458-calibre hunting rifle.
This is in contrast to previous poaching incidents in the province when the rhinos were darted with a lethal dose of a veterinary drug.
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