Another person was arrested along with the former corporal during an anti-poaching operation on Wednesday.
SANParks Isaac Phaahla said: “We can confirm that a former corporal within our rangers was arrested in Kruger National Park while in possession of a hunting rifle, ammunition and poaching equipment. He was arrested alongside an accomplice.”Meanwhile, conservation NGO, the Landmark Foundation has condemned the actions of a man filmed shooting a leopard in the Northern Cape.The foundation's Dr Bool Smuts said it was not the first time the same family had killed a leopard.
“We are horrified because it’s the second time he’s killed a cat that we’re studying, so we run a research an conflict mitigation programme along the southern banks of the Orange River.”
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