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Dear All

I had hoped that our last message, a rather more upbeat one than this one, would have been an appropriate note to close the year out on, but ALAS not! Please think about this column when you go out to buy the meat you will eat this Christmas and how its production may have affected our magnificent leopards and other predators, and contributed to instances like this.

The 24th leopard (since November 2002 that we know of) in our region recently died in a gin trap. This incident has been one of our worst to date. 


 
 
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Since 30 November 2007, there have been a further 3 leopard rescues to which we were called out around the Baviaanskloof reserve.


These have all been successful and with the aid of our live traps. Clearly we see this as a significant endorsement of our efforts. These rescues have been possible with the help of increasingly more effective collaboration with the local farmers in the region, particularly in the Baviaanskloof. This is in direct contrast to our earlier articles where some in the region (and countrywide) continue to utilise destructive, unacceptable and lethal means of predator “control” through the use of barbaric gin traps (and poisons and hunting dog packs).



 

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03/12/2011

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