Lobby group not happy with light sentence on farmer

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 South Africa's largest bird conservation lobby has lashed out at what it says is the light sentence imposed on a farmer who poisoned 46 threatened Cape vultures.

Last Thursday, Armand Aucamp, was fined R10 000 after pleading guilty to lacing a sheep's carcass with carbofuran, a powerful insecticide.

Forty-six Cape vultures ate the sheep and died in December last year.

Aucamp, who lives in the Eastern Cape, also got a suspended one-year jail term.

But, Kerri Wolter of the vulture conservation group, Vulpro slammed the sentence as very poor, given the number of vultures killed.

She said there were around 3-thousand 700 Cape vultures left globally.