Johannesburg, 29 feb ( EFE).-four guards of the Kruger Park, the natural reserve of South Africa, have been arrested in connection with the poaching of Rhinoceros, the direction of National parks (SANPARKS) said today in a statement.
Arrests were made on Tuesday, before two corpses of rhinoceros is counter-insurgency with his horns cut in the area of Pretoriuskop, where the four security guards worked.
The operation was carried out jointly by SANPARKS troops and the South African police.
One of the detainees is a forest ranger, while another belongs to protection services and a third party is assigned to the control of traffic on the roads of the Park unit.
The detention room is one of the 248 guards, from the February 15, involved in a strike for wage improvements.
The authorities investigated his relationship with the death of two rhinos and other incidents in the same area of the nature reserve.
11 Of the 43 cases of poaching in so far this year in the Kruger Park have accounted in the area of Pretoriuskop.
A total of 80 rhinos have been killed since January, 2012 in South Africa and authorities have arrested half a hundred poachers, according to figures disclosed by SANPARKS.
“It is very sad to discover that the hands of gangs trafficking in rhino horns have come to smear those who we have tasked to monitor our natural heritage,” said David Mabunda, Chief Executive of SANPARKS.
Rhinos are in danger of extinction due to poaching for their precious horns, which in Asia are attributed medicinal properties.
The year passed there were for this reason 443 dead animals, a record which exceeded the 333 figure 2010. EFE
