The Kruger National Park is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, but, over the past five years, it has become a killing field. Visiting the park as part of his week-long tour of South Africa, Prince Harry said: "If current poaching rates continue, there will be no wild African elephants or rhinos left by the time children born this year, like my niece, Charlotte, turn 25."Harry spent yesterday morning at a site where two female r hinos and a calf had been killed three days earlier .He said: "This belongs to South Africa and it has been stolen by other people. And the body's left here, wasted."The 31-year-old prince knelt next to the corpse of the mother rhino, its massive ribs exposed after days of visits from scavengers, and shook his head sadly.Harry later told newly graduated rangers : "This should be viewed as a time of war and you need laws that are up to the challenge."He said the recent court ruling that now legalises the trade of rhino horn in South Africa was harmful.He said: "It's not for me to second-guess a court or the legal reasons behind its decision, but what I strongly believe is that the legalisation of rhino-horn trading will accelerate the path to extinction."Two rhinos are killed in the park every day.Last year a record 1215 rhinos were poached in South Africa, almost triple the 448 killed in 2011. So far this year at least 749 rhinos have been killed, 544 in the Kruger.The horns are sold to criminal syndicates who ship them to Asian countries, such as Vietnam and China, where the horns are regarded as a cure for a host of ailments from hangovers to cancer.Commenting on the latest poaching incident, Major-General Johan Jooste, the head of the park's anti-poaching team, said poachers had left behind a useful spoor of their movements.He said: "There's good evidence there, we have a water bottle and cartridges so we're confident we will catch them."Jooste said that, at any given time, there were more than a dozen poaching groups in the Kruger, usually operating in teams of three. He said the teams could carry out a poaching in 15 minutes, adding that, on average, three or four such attacks happened each day."This is Armageddon," said Jooste.Additional reporting by ©The Daily Telegraph..