BEAUFORT WEST NEWS - South African National Parks (SANParks) announced today that they will be relocating Sylvester the lion to the Addo Elephant National Park (AENP).
Sylvester escaped from the Karoo National Park (for a second time) at the end of March.
The lion will be moved into a boma within an existing 200ha enclosure in the Kuzuko contractual section of the AENP for him to bond with 2 young females that are currently in the enclosure.
The CEO of SANParks, Fundisile Mketeni said: “This lion, at three years of age, is still young enough to bond with the two females and ultimately establish himself as the resident pride male”.
The lions will then be released into the park to be free-ranging. The fence between Kuzuko and the neighbouring Darlington section of AENP is due to be dropped soon which will then provide the three lions with 60 000 ha over which to roam.
This option forms part of the Frontier Cluster’s Carnivore Management Plan. The plan aims to restore or mimic the natural social dynamics of lion behavior, in this case by simulating the dispersal of male lions that would be found in large conservation systems like the 2 million hectares of the Kruger National Park or the 3 million of the Kgalalgadi Transfrontier Park.
Information courtesy of SANParks.
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