Kruger Park deploys specialised dogs to track and catch rhino poachers 

Simon Nare

At first glance, it has all the hallmarks of cruelty to animals. 

The intensive search that perhaps traumatises the rhino just like the poachers the park rangers are saving it from. From being shot with morphine injection a thousand times more than that can be used on a human.

And while the majestic beefy animals lie unconscious, the rangers would sever its symbolic horns that distinguishes them from other animals.

This is the only way the Kruger National Park can save these animals from evil poachers who have been running amok in one of the world’s revered parks poaching the rhino for its horns to sell on the illicit markets.

The Kruger Park authorities are of the view that this measure, together with other innovative ways which have attracted poachers like bees to honey, may have turned the tide against poachers. But they keep coming.

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