/ 23 February 1999

POACHERS NABBED IN MOZ

THREE as yet unnamed South Africans have had their helicopter, two large trucks and a bulldozer impounded by Mozambican police and have been charged with illegal poaching. Police detained the men during a raid on a Chimoio bush camp on February 12 after they allegedly tried to herd and capture rare sable antelope and other animals from surrounding game reserves and state forests. Villagers also claim to have seen that men herding sable antelope out of the nearby Nguala reserve.