The Wilderness Foundation Africa‚ through the Forever Wild Rhino Protection Initiative and the Wildlife Operations Group‚ has offered a R100‚000 reward for information leading to the successful arrest and prosecution of rhino poachers in the Eastern Cape.
The organisation said it had been a bleak year for rhino in the province with a number of brutal poaching incidents having taken place.
No statistics were supplied for the province.
In a recent incident‚ two white rhino cows were killed and a rhino bull wounded by poachers in the Sibuya Game Reserve in the province.
Some 1‚175 rhino were poached in South Africa in 2015‚ which was slight lower than the record 1‚215 killed in 2014.
R100‚000 reward offered for information leading to arrest of rhino poachers
The Wilderness Foundation Africa‚ through the Forever Wild Rhino Protection Initiative and the Wildlife Operations Group‚ has offered a R100‚000 reward for information leading to the successful arrest and prosecution of rhino poachers in the Eastern Cape.
The organisation said it had been a bleak year for rhino in the province with a number of brutal poaching incidents having taken place.
No statistics were supplied for the province.
In a recent incident‚ two white rhino cows were killed and a rhino bull wounded by poachers in the Sibuya Game Reserve in the province.
Some 1‚175 rhino were poached in South Africa in 2015‚ which was slight lower than the record 1‚215 killed in 2014.
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