One escaped Kruger Park lion still missing

09 May 2017 - 23:17 By Kyle Cowan
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An intense day of work by Kruger National Park rangers‚ helicopter pilots and vets has resulted in four of the five lions that escaped on Monday were recaptured.

The lions were loose in thick bush next to the N14 near Komatipoort.

“It’s been a long day we started off with five lions that had gone astray and we have managed to recover four of them‚” SANParks spokesman Ike Phaahla told eNCA.

  • One of five escaped lions safely recapturedOne of the five lions which escaped from the Kruger National Park has been caught‚ SA National Parks said on Tuesday afternoon. 

“All credit to the rangers‚ the vets and the helicopter pilots. Remember we are operating with just one helicopter in the morning‚” he said.

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“The difficulty was that the bush was very think and the lions once they heard the sound of the helicopter would crouch and go deep into the bush.”

  • Three lions tracked down after escaping from Kruger ParkThree of the lions that escaped from the Kruger National Park have been tracked down‚ SA National Parks said on Tuesday. 

“We made a call just after lunch that a second helicopter would help so that of the other one is spotting the animals the other one should drive them out of the thicket‚” Phaahla said.

He said it was a race against time to capture the fifth lion before darkness fell.

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