VOLUME 72

The Poachers’ Bone Yard

Staff Writer

10 Mar 2026 — 1 min read

On snare-sweep patrols, the Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation team sometimes comes across poachers’ camps. Eugene Troskie has found many of these camps over the years.

A collared female hyaena was hanging around in a certain area for an inordinate length of time, which generally indicates an animal killed in a snare. Eugene and his team picked this up on their tracking devices and decided to go in and see what the situation was.

They found a huge poachers’ camp that had been in operation for a long time. The evidence of the poachers’ work was strewn across the surrounding bush.

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