Prince Harry visits Kruger National Park
One member of the British Royal family recently put his own safety on the line by joining our local war against poaching.
According to The Daily Mail, Prince Harry was last week secretly flown into a military camp in the Kruger Park, where he has been going on night patrols with an army unit as part of the government’s anti-poaching campaign, called Operation Corona.
The Prince is at the front line of a bloody war against rhino poachers, joining heavily armed forces battling gangs of criminals wielding rifles and machetes.
The South African force consists of several hundred infantry, 400 armed rangers and 150 others, including special forces and police – and they have already killed more than 300 poachers.
In a shootout, one poacher was injured and the rangers recovered a high-powered rifle and silencer.
The army unit can also call on a helicopter with thermal imaging to spot poachers in the densely forested park, which is the size of Wales, along with two surveillance planes and several drones.
