Communities in fear after animals escape from Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park: Communities near the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal say they are living in fear after the recent escape of wild animals from the Big Five park.
Communities living near the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday said they are living in fear after the recent escape of wild animals from the Big Five park.Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife spokesperson Musa Mntambo told TimesLIVE that one of the rhinos had been recaptured.Mntambo said he was also trying to establish how a 45-year-old woman from a nearby community was injured during the rhino escape drama.
Msizi Myaka, of the Okhukho and Nqulwane community committee, said residents in the area had to do something because the white rhinos were spotted near two schools.The black rhino was not captured despite a helicopter search. Myaka said the dispatching of helicopters to search for escaped animals “takes long so communities had to do something. They were trying to protect the pupils. They were shooting at it because there was nothing else they could do. It was running all over the place.
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