クルーガーレンジャーは、疑ったリノのポハッカーは、phabeni近く象の群れの下で死亡したと言います

クルーガー国立公園, 南アフリカ — Field rangers on an anti-poaching patrol near Phabeni on April 17, 2021 found a suspected rhino poacher dead under a breeding herd of elephants. SANParks media specialist Isaac Phaahla said the man was part of a poaching group. Rangers spotted the group. The suspects ran. They ran into the herd. One man did not get up. An accomplice was arrested by the South African Police Service. SANParks put it on the record the next day.

Kruger has spent years losing rhinos to rifles and axes. The park’s own animals doing the enforcement is the kind of headline that writes itself, which is why every outlet from CBS to the New York Post picked it up. The AEGIS Alliance will not turn a trampling into a cartoon. A dead poacher is one fewer rifle in the reserve. It is also one body SANParks did not have to shoot. Phaahla’s warning was the real line: Kruger is not a safe workplace for people who come to kill rhinos.

Six months later, in October 2021, rangers on another intelligence-led anti-poaching operation found a second mangled body at Stolsnek. Phaahla told AFP an elephant had stomped a male suspect and his accomplices had left him. No animal was killed in the immediate vicinity. The AEGIS Alliance covered that second death separately. Two incidents in one year is a pattern, not a fable.

関連項目: the Stolsnek elephant stomp, the Louisiana beach dolphinなど 環境方針 カバー。