Rhino poaching: 259 killed in six months - Figures show South Africa’s efforts to combat rhino poaching pays off
Between January and June this year, 259 rhinos were poached, down from 318 rhinos in the first six months of 2019, according to At the Kruger National Park, 82 rhinos were poached from January to June. KwaZulu-Natal recorded the highest number at 133 rhinos, about four times the 33 rhinos killed in the province over the same period last year.
“This makes it all the more important for the national government to shift its focus to supporting provincial authorities and private reserves in the war on rhino poaching,” said Creecy. Transnational cooperation between the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation and authorities in Malaysia and Qatar led to the arrest of an alleged rhino horn trafficker at Doha Airport in Qatar. Another four alleged rhino horn traffickers were arrested between January and June this year at OR Tambo International Airport while attempting to smuggle 56 rhino horns out of the country.
Nationwide, 69 people were arrested in connection with rhino poaching and rhino horn trafficking over the same period of six months. Of these, 13 were arrested at the Kruger National Park. “The heaviest sentence handed down was 34 years imprisonment, while two Mpumalanga men were sentenced to 28 year[s] behind bars for killing rhinos and being in possession of illegal firearms and ammunition,” the department said.
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