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The crude remains of three poachers have been found alongside firearms and an axe, which are believed to have been used to cut the horns of rhinos they sought to kill to sell on the black market.
For animal protection activists, killers of these creatures for sport or profit are always an enemy, so when such hunters meet a bloody end, they are unlikely to shed tears.
This is what happened to Riaan Naude, the well-known bounty hunter who had killed dozens of lions, elephants and giraffes who was found dead in execution style a few days ago in South Africa.
But Naude’s death seems to have been quick, which cannot be said about that of the three hunters who met their end a few months ago.
A severed head and several limbs, as well as three pairs of empty shoes was all that was left of the three men when they were discovered.
The trio had entered the Sibuya game reserve in South Africa with the intention of killing a herd of rhinos.
Equipped with firearms and axes, they had to kill the rhinos to sell their horns on the black market.
But they didn’t take into account a pack of highly protective lions that roamed the park.
After the incident, the owner of the reserve Nick Fox said that the poachers were heavily armed and had abundant food reserves, “so we suspect they were after our rhinos.”
“But the lions are constant watchers and guardians of the park and the hunters seem to have messed with the wrong herd,” he added.
This was not the first time that nature ‘fights’ against its oppressors.
In May 2018, trophy hunter Claude Kleynhans was mauled to death by a buffalo horn near the Levubu River in South Africa.
He was loading the carcass of a buffalo into his truck when another animal swooped up and gored him in the thigh sending the 54-year-old to an early grave.
According to South Africa’s forestry department a total of 451 rhinos were killed in 2021 – 327 within government reserves and 124 on private property.
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