SANParks released a statement earlier confirming that a ranger did shoot and kill a lion after it entered a rest camp in the Kruger National Park. A concerned visitor posted on the SANParks Facebook group asking why she had heard gunshots at two in the morning, the visitor suspected that it was a poaching accident. …
We are excited to add another post to our Lion of Kruger segment and today’s post we have a lion enthusiast, Thorben Seik, as our guest to discuss the four Shishangeni males. The post and information was provided by Thorben. So on this post, Thorben wanted to lay the focus on a coalition that is …
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We decided to do an updated version of this post since our last post is out-dated and it definitely needed an update because lions don’t tend to stay in the same place. While everyone will have their opinion on their best roads for spotting lions we are sharing the roads we’ve had the best luck …
Kurt Schultz, owner of Kurt Safari, had a once in a lifetime sighting on Saturday the 1st of Feb 2020 in the Kruger National Park, when he saw a baboon ‘adopt’ a lion cub. He told Latest Sightings the story: “I had a meeting at Skukuza, one of the camps, for Kurt Safari on Saturday, …
Yesterday marked a new beginning for 12 tigers and 5 lions, as they start their new life at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa. The big cats were rescued by Animal Defenders International (ADI) from Guatemala, where they suffered their whole life by being confined to small cages. The rescue mission known as Operation …
We bring you a new installment in our Lions of Kruger segment, we focus on the “Young” Jock Males on today’s post. The young Jock lions get their name from the Jock pride and not from the Jock male lions. The young Jock males were born at the end of 2014, and they were fathered …