The Karoo Lion that escaped in February is still on the run after 22 days.
Security solutions provider Bidvest Protea Coin has sent a specialised team to assist with the ongoing search for the male lion which escaped from Karoo National Park near Beaufort West.
Chief operations officer of Bidvest Protea Coin, Waal de Waal said it was a unique case and they wanted to get involved due to their love for animals and nature.
The company owns one of only two choppers in the country fitted with forward-looking infrared (FLIR), or thermal imaging infrared cameras, which allows us to pick up heat signatures on the ground over a radius of 10 kilometres when flying at night.
The team will meet up with Karoo Park manager, Nico van der Walt, and his group of rangers and trackers on the ground and discuss their plan of action. The Bidvest team also has a tracker on board, who will assist the team on the ground.
The current team picked up the lion’s spoor about 110km in a north-westerly direction from the Park on Friday morning.
The team consists of about a dozen rangers and trackers sent in from Addo Elephant, Camdeboo and Mountain Zebra national parks in the Eastern Cape.
