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Following a report of a lion sighting outside the Karoo National Park on Friday, 15 February 2019 and the subsequent search for the last three days, Rangers have reported a discovery of fresh lion spoor in a farm neighbouring the park.

According to Nico van der Walt, Karoo National Park – Park Manager, Rangers patrolled a vast area again on (Monday, 18 February 2019) covering two adjacent farms and made a detailed search on these properties … “where we believed we might have some luck.”

He said all was quiet for most of the day but at approximately 16:30 a fresher spoor was found with confirmation that it was a spoor left after the rain fell on Friday night or Saturday morning. “Although it is difficult to tell how fresh the spoor is, but at least this is a positive break in the search.”

Van der Walt said the trackers were on the spoor until dark last night (Monday, 18 February) … “and has resumed with the search at first light this morning. The distance where the spoor was found is more or less 7 kilometres from the Karoo National Park’s north easterly boundary.”

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