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Bool Smuts

Dr Bool Smuts is the founder and general manager of the Landmark Foundation Trust, a conservation organisation dedicated to protecting apex predators and their habitats in southern Africa, with a particular mandate relating to the leopard

Over the past year, leopards were captured alive in cage traps without the required permits in three separate incidents. The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) failure to apply the correct law is not a correctable error — it becomes a permanent constitutional outcome. Photos: Supplied

CAPE NATURE

12 MAY 2026

The NPA’s war on leopards and the wildlife laws

In three separate incidents across the Western Cape in the past year — in Piketberg, Bot River and Bredasdorp—landowners or their agents captured leopards alive in cage traps…

Bool Smuts

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