{"id":80828,"date":"2018-05-04T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T09:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=80828"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:55:00","slug":"video-rhino-calf-alone-bush-two-days-poachers-kill-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/05\/04\/video-rhino-calf-alone-bush-two-days-poachers-kill-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Rhino calf alone for days after poachers kill its mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poaching incident took place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpumalanga.com\/discover\/our-recommended\/top-things-to-do\/loskop-dam-nature-reserve\" target=\"_blank\">Loskop Nature Reserve <\/a>recently.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reserve&#8217;s game rangers discovered the rhino cow\u2019s carcass. She was killed with a large caliber rifle and her horn was sawed off.\u00a0 Her calf was missing.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/y7AYTPwHvWA' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Game rangers attempted to search the 26 000 hectare reserve for the orphaned calf. A micro-light aircraft as well as a drone belonging to Deon Cornelius of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpumalanga.com\/blog\/single\/ubhetyan-o-africa-where-animals-get-a-second-chance\" target=\"_blank\">Ubhetyan<\/a>, was used in the search.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0help of specialized trackers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.international-ads.com\/item\/w-i-p-s-wildlife-investigation-protection-services-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife Investigations and Protection Services (WIPS)<\/a> were called in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/71549\/video-revolutionary-e-tags-fitted-ubhetyan-fight-rhino-poaching-real-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Revolutionary e-tags fitted to rhinos to fight poaching in real-time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The search team became worried because the calf was left to fend for herself in the wild for days.<\/p>\n<p>Trackers quickly found fresh tracks. The rhino calf was darted from a helicopter who came from Hoedspruit to assist with the search. <a href=\"http:\/\/savingprivaterhino.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saving Private Rhino<\/a> was also involved in the search.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/28573\/police-arrested-for-rhino-poaching-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police arrested for rhino poaching<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The calf has since been relocated to an orphanage and rehabilitation centre near Nelspruit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Other stories:<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80738\/gupta-swear-word-middelburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gupta is a swear word in Middelburg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80724\/video-reward-stolen-bicycles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video \u2013 Reward for stolen bicycles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80641\/photos-two-assaulted-berg-en-dal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Photos \u2013 Two assaulted at Berg-En-Dal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/afp\/399393\/dj-avicii-killed-himself-with-glass-report\" target=\"_blank\">Avicii killed himself with glass: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhino calf, barely a few months old, was left orphaned after poachers killed its mother for her horn.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":73081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Middelburg Observer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[6791,5590,5973,6985,1532,11398,1559,11397],"class_list":["post-80828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-loskop","tag-nature-reserve","tag-poach","tag-poaching","tag-rhino-poaching","tag-trackers","tag-ubhetyan","tag-wips"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Loskop","nature reserve","poach","poaching","rhino poaching","trackers","Ubhetyan","wips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}