Landowners on the farm Highlands, to the north-east of the Karoo National Park, were asked to be on the lookout.
Specialised trackers and rangers from the Karoo National Park outside Beaufort West in the Western Cape have now expanded the search area hoping to track the lion which escaped from the park almost two weeks ago.
“The teams searched on top of the mountains in an area called the Kleinboere, towards the north-east of the park. The section of the Kleinboere area that the teams could not cover yesterday will be searched today, and also north of that. This is between 15 and 20 kilometres from the park’s boundary,” Van der Walt said.
By midday on Tuesday, the team reported to still not have found any fresh tracks, nor have had any recent sightings of the lion. “It’s believed he managed to escape underneath the park’s electrified fencing after heavy rain in the area washed away sediment along the boundary – and before rangers could get to all the areas to attend to these holes in the ground,” Van der Walt said.
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