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Leopard shot in Letaba Camp
Krugerpark News Information: At around 21h00 on Monday evening, June 27, some Kruger staff saw a leopard walking past the Letaba Elephant Hall building in the Letaba Camp. One of the camp guides kept an eye on the leopard...
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Kudu Awards ceremony honours conservationists
Krugerpark News Information: The Kruger National Park (KNP) made an impressive showing at the inaugural award giving ceremony for the South African National Parks (Sanparks) Kudu Awards. They won no less than seven awards...
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Huge catfish caught in Thailand
Krugerpark News Information: A freshwater fish weighing almost 300kg, more than an adult male lion, was caught by fishermen in the Mekong River. This is the largest catfish ever recorded and has earned a place in the Guinness...
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Get ready for the Tour de Kruger
Krugerpark News Information: The Tour de Kruger and the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park will offer 200 cyclists the chance to ride their mountain bikes through the dirt roads of the Limpopo National Park and the Kruger...
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Fungi fight MALARIA mosquitoes
Krugerpark News Information: Scientists are thinking laterally in an attempt to combat one of Africa’s worst killers – malaria. Using nature to fight nature, a new study has shown that fungi have the potential to stop malaria...
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Fireside stories
Krugerpark News Information: Listening to various people talking about wild animal behavior, it is clear that certain jokes and amusing incidents portrayed in some books and films have been accepted as true. These regurgitated...
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Elephant hunt goes wrong in Greater Kruger
Krugerpark News Information: It took almost 24 hours before an American hunter, together with a South African professional hunter, could finally dispatch an elephant bull that they had wounded on a hunt. The elephant was shot...
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Cycads stolen out of national park
Krugerpark News Information: Cycads worth hundreds of thousands of Rands have been stolen out of the Blyde Canyon National Park. The latest raid in the Leboeng area on the Drakensberg escarpment netted 105 cycads, estimated...
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50 year anniversary celebrated at Lower Sabie
Krugerpark News Information: Mr and Mrs C Griesel decided to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at Lower Sabie Camp. “We felt Lower Sabie’s peaceful atmosphere and friendly, helpful staff will be the ideal backdrop...
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Youth day in Kruger
Krugerpark News Information: Kids in Kruger celebrated Youth Day by inviting young people from neighbouring communities to a day of song and dance. Several entertaining items, carrying strong conservational messages and...
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Traditional dancers find captive audience
Krugerpark News Information: Peer Mkhonto, the leader of a group of traditional dancers that regularly performs at functions in the Kruger National Park, is now less reliant on the unpredictable scheduling of events in the...
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Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles
Krugerpark News Information: Probably the most well known and least understood of all our animals are the Tortoises. Referred to, flippantly, as ‘mobile meat pies’ or, further south as ‘karroo-kreel’ and the subject of many...
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The day Daniel stood seven feet tall
Krugerpark News Information: Daniel was a ranger for 20 full years, based at Nyalaland wilderness trail. Job titles get lost in the wind these days, however Mentor is something that will not. One afternoon we were conducting...
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Solomon sparks at Hamiltons
Krugerpark News Information: Solomon Ntuli (41) has been working in the Kruger National Park since 1987, rising through the ranks as time progressed. Starting off as a gardener in 1981, he now holds the position of chef at the prestigious Hamilton’s Tented Camp. Hamilton’s is one of
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Scene Around
Krugerpark News Information: Visitors and Kruger staff joined in a day of fun and games during the Munghana Lonene FM’s live broadcast on Sunday June 12. The Skukuza Soccer Stadium filled up from early morning with a soccer...
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Rhinos killed
Krugerpark News Information: Circling vultures led some Vlakteplaas rangers to two dead rhino, killed in the vicinity of Langtoon Dam in the Far Northern Region of the Kruger National Park (KNP). The rangers found the carcasse...
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Reptile hunt now on
Krugerpark News Information: Beginning this year and continuing until 2008, South Africa’s reptiles will be the object of close scrutiny. With over 360 species of reptiles, more than 35 percent of which are only found here...
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Mans fascination with lions
Krugerpark News Information: Butch Smuts worked in the Kruger National Park for many years, first studying what was causing a decline in zebra populations, and later performing intensive studies on the lion populations in the...
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Last invasive aliens felled
Krugerpark News Information: A joint venture between the Alien Invader Task Group (AITG) of the Honorary Rangers, the Alien Biota Section of Kruger and a People for Wildlife team, comprising mostly members of the Roodepoort...
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Krugers quest for Zero Waste
Krugerpark News Information: The Kruger National Park (KNP) is hoping to become a regional leader – in rubbish. A pilot project will be launched in the Phalaborwa region of the park soon, where all the waste products will be...
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