Search for crocodiles in Limpopo intensifies
Imogen Vollenhoven
26January 2013
Limpopo police say the
search for thousands of crocodiles swept away in flash floods from the Rakwena
Crocodile Farm will be intensified.
Most of the 15,000 crocodiles are less than
two metres long.
26January 2013
The flood gates at the Rakwena Crocodile
Farm close to the Botswana and Zimbabwe borders were
opened on Sunday because it was feared that rising flood waters would crush the
reptiles.
Crocodile farmers, residents and police
have trapped thousands of the reptiles, using plastic bands to tie their legs
behind their backs and then piling them into pick-up trucks.
The police's Hangwani Mulaudzi said, it is a
24 hour operation but I’m told it is easier in the evening because they light
with their eyes.
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