(Posted 11th July 2025)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Palesa Matlala, Scroll Africa (South Africa) July 08, 2025 |
| The smell of burnt elephant meat and vulture feathers hit me like a punch to the face as we reached the crime scene deep in Kruger National Park. As a young journalist from Soweto, I had joined a group of rangers for a terrifying 9km walk into the scary bushes to witness where poachers had killed an elephant and poisoned its meat. At 8:30am we were driven to the Mhlanga section, where we left our safari vehicles and walked on foot into the wilderness. |
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