Title:

Kampf gegen Wilderei intensiviert

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Publication Year:
2022
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"Wir haben neu organisiert und Änderungen in der AWE vorgenommen", kündigte der Minister gestern auf einer Presskonferenz an. Der Leiter der AWE, Ndahangwapo Kashihakumwa ist jetzt in Etoscha und bleibt dort stationiert und wird einige Änderungen vornehmen. „Unsere Leute waren zu selbstzufrieden (complacent). Wir müssen auch annehmen, dass Personal wahrscheinlich Informationen über die Nashörner an die Wilderer weitergegeben haben kann, also ein 'inside job' sagte der Minister. Die Wilderer würden nicht ohne interne Information in den Park kommen, denn es seien in den letzten drei bis vier Jahren keine Nashörner mehr gewildert worden. "Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass so etwas geschehen ist, dass Personal (im Park) mit Wilderen unter einer Decke steckt", sagte Shifeta.

"We have reorganized and made changes in the APU," announced the minister yesterday at a press conference. The head of the APU, Ndahangwapo Kashihakumwa is now in Etosha and will remain stationed there and will make some changes. "Our people were too complacent. We also have to assume that staff may have likely passed information about the rhinos to the poachers, so an 'inside job',” the minister said. The poachers would not come to the park without internal information because no rhinos had been poached in the last three to four years. "It's not the first time that something like this has happened, that staff (at the park) are in cahoots with poachers," Shifeta said. Some of the rhinos were spotted just a few kilometers north of Dolomit Camp, a government rest camp in Etosha Park. The poachers are said to have entered at Okahao. According to Kenneth Kahuure, the parks and wildlife manager, some animals have also been poached in the southeast and east, the latter on the edge of the pan.

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Newspaper
Item Type:
Report
Language:
de

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