Self-drive tours now open in Tshwane’s Dinokeng Game Reserve
Lockdown level 3 has brought some slight relief to Tshwane’s Dinokeng Game Reserve in the form of permitted self-drive tours.
The reserve has been struggling to make ends meet since the Covid-19 pandemic forced the government to prohibit non-essential movement of people.
To make matters worse, while the park was struggling to pay staff who protect and care for its wild animals, it acknowledged an increase in bush meat hunting, leaving one of it’s lions trapped and mutilated.
A proud general manager of the reserve David Boshoff yesterday said a few people have already started using the self-drive routes to give themselves something different to enjoy and hopefully get a glance of the Big Five animals.
“The announcement by the government that we can use self-drive routes was some good news we haven’t had in a long time.
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