Two dogs have run amok at the Boulders penguin colony in the Cape Peninsula National Park near Simons Town, killing 13 of the threatened species. Poaching worry after Kenyan jumbo count. The Kenya Wildlife Service expresses concern about low elephant numbers in Tsavo National Park. Kruger Park seeks cash aid. There is no risk of bovine tuberculosis being passed to tourists to South Africa's game parks, says the Medical Research Council.
Farmer gets permit to shoot aggressive hippo.
The Northern Province Department of Environmental Affairs has issued a permit allowing a local farmer to hunt and kill an adult bull hippo which has made its home in the Matlabas River. A man was apparently devoured by a crocodile in the Olifants River at Marble Hall on Sunday. Mozambican police arrest SA men for poaching. Three as yet unnamed South Africans have had their helicopter, two large trucks and a bulldozer impounded by Mozambican police and have been charged with illegal poaching. Living monument honours Shangaan culture.