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Stunning Supermoon Photos – Beautiful but Brutal, Bringing Rhino “Carnage”

A wonderfully full Full Moon – known as Hunter’s Moon – shone big and bright this weekend, hanging beautifully in the sky… NIGEL RILEY captured these stunning photos of the full moon over the Western Cape. But with its beauty came that lethal moonlight that shines like a torch over South Africa’s precious game reserves, […]

By SAPeople
17-10-16 21:14
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A wonderfully full Full Moon – known as Hunter’s Moon – shone big and bright this weekend, hanging beautifully in the sky… NIGEL RILEY captured these stunning photos of the full moon over the Western Cape.

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Supermoon in the Western Cape

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But with its beauty came that lethal moonlight that shines like a torch over South Africa’s precious game reserves, transforming the bush into a poacher’s paradise.

According to Stroop rhino documentary filmmakers, there was “horrific carnage this full moon weekend”. It started with the discovery of three dead rhino at the Kruger National Park’s Orpen gate and didn’t stop…

This month’s lunar event was the first of three spectacular Supermoons in the last part of this year.

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It is known as Hunter’s Moon in the northern hemisphere as hunters would hunt by the autumn moonlight to stockpile food for the winter ahead.

Tragically, it has now become Poacher’s Moon in the southern hemisphere, since the escalation in poaching in the last eight years.

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Hunters Moon over Gauteng

This Friday, the trial of KwaZulu-Natal’s alleged rhino poaching kingpin Dumisani Gwala will begin.

Next month’s full moon on November 14 will be the largest of the year, and the closest supermoon since 1948!