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  • 15 000 Crocodiles On The Loose In Limpopo – Invading Schools, Farms

    24 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone in Animals, Environment
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    Heavy rains and extensive flooding in Limpopo have caused havoc in that region. At least six people have died, but now thousands of crocodiles are also on the loose.

    It was reported this morning that some 15 000 crocodiles had been set free from the Rakwena Crocodile Farm into the Limpopo River during flooding in the past week.

    Zane Langman, the son-in-law of Johan Boshoff, who owns Rakwena, told Beeld:

    We’ve been recapturing them as and when the local farmers phone us to tell us that there are crocodiles on their property. In Weipe there were a lot, and I also heard there was a crocodile on school’s rugby field in Musina.

    They had been forced to open the crocodile farm’s gates after fears that the floodwaters would crush the walls of the Boshoff’s home, but thousands of crocodiles had already been recaptured in the dense bush alongside the river as well as in the bordering orange groves.

    It’s certainly no easy task recapturing the animals and at least half of the 15 000 were still on the loose. Most of the recapturing was taking place at night.

    [Source: TimesLive]

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