Sibuya Game Reserve and Tented Camps in Kenton-on-Sea, Eastern Cape, has announced that a levy of R150 (€10.19) per bed night will be compulsory from October 1 this year and will be advertised alongside its rates.
The reserve introduced a voluntary levy of R100 (€6.79) in October last year following a rhino poaching incident. “Sadly, two breeding females and a breeding bull were brutally slaughtered and their horns hacked off despite the best efforts of our anti-poaching unit to protect them,” said Charlene Watson in a press release from the reserve.
Sibuya aims to becoming a sanctuary for orphaned juvenile rhino until they are sufficiently rehabilitated to be moved to other reserves. The costs of feeding and rehabilitation are high and the reserve hopes to raise considerable extra funds for the animals’ on-reserve protection and to expand the anti-poaching unit.
