{"id":56204,"date":"2022-10-03T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/escaped-lioness-dies-during-recapture-20221003\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:27:46","slug":"escaped-lioness-dies-during-recapture-20221003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/escaped-lioness-dies-during-recapture-20221003\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped lioness dies during recapture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lioness dies<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>15 pigs killed on a nearby farm<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><strong>It is said that<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0three lions had in fact escaped on that fateful night.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lioness that escaped from a wild life rehabilitation centre two weeks ago was traced and found near to where she had escaped. She was killed during the recapture process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The 18 month old lioness had reportedly escaped during load shedding on 23 September. Teams of local farmers, the police, the Virginia SPCA and the Nature Conservation have been searching the area intensively for two weeks. Various sightings were reported during this time, and she was seen near the Willem Pretorius Games Reserve and another sighting placed her near Winburg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Late on Saturday night (01\/09) the lioness was spotted next to the reserve from which she had escaped two weeks prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Blockquote\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_d1bba386\">\n<div class=\"text\">\u201cAttempts were made for a successful capture, but the lioness had to be put down. Further investigations revealed that a local farmer lost a total of 15 pigs killed on his farm during this time\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAttempts were made for a successful capture, but the lioness had to be put down. Further investigations revealed that a local farmer lost a total of 15 pigs killed on his farm during this time,\u201d says Sgt Mahlomola Kareli, Free State SAPS communication officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kareli says investigations are underway to establish if they were killed by the same lioness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Vista<\/em> understands from an informed source that three lions had in fact escaped on that fateful night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thea Smit, chairman of the Virginia and Bloemfontein SPCA, says the poor animal did not ask to be there, she escaped because of her circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe owners claim that it was load shedding, but that\u2019s not the case, because if you have those animals in captivity, surely you make provision for load shedding,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smit says a group of lions had to be moved into one enclosure, as they were going to be exported to Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Blockquote\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_9bf96d0e\">\n<div class=\"text\">\u201cThey have a big order there for live lions to go into zoos and private ownership\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey have a big order there for live lions to go into zoos and private ownership,\u201d says Smit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smit who is passionate about lion farming, and the fall out from the lion trade, says that the condition of the sale was that the lions had to be familiar with each other so that they could actually place them easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo it was overcrowding. 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