Update
KAROO NEWS - The last confirmed spoor of the missing Karoo lion was followed by rangers and trackers on Monday to about 42km north east of the town of Sutherland in the Northern Cape.
This is also from where they continued their search on Tuesday morning.
Reports were also received on Monday of four sheep and two goats killed on a farm in the vicinity.
The Bidvest Protea Coin team which joined up with the search party on Friday to offer their assistance has put their infrared technology to work at night in an attempt to get closer to the animal.
They have unfortunately not had any luck over the past three nights.
The Bidvest team consisted of a tracker who joined the team on the ground and also had an aerial component - one of only two helicopter in the country fitted with forward-looking infrared (FLIR), or thermal imaging infrared cameras, which allows the operator to pick up heat signatures on the ground over a radius of 10 kilometres when flying at night.
The search continues.
Read previous articles here:
- Lion search gets assistance from unlikely source
- Search for lion continues
- Search area for Karoo lion expanded
- Public urged to be on the lookout for escaped lion
- Karoo lion spotted
- Helicopter part of lion search
- Rangers find spoor of escaped lion
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