Lion Hunting Dogs
“ THIS GOING AFTER lions without dogs is looking for trouble.”
Who better to know this than game-ranger Harold Trollope who, in 1924, was appointed by Colonel James Stevenson-Hamilton, warden of the Sabi Nature Reserve, which would later be expanded to form the Kruger National Park. Trollope’s task was to cull an exploding lion population that was decimating other game species in the reserve. Marauding prides were also causing havoc on local farms and at nearby native kraals. Complaints were the order of the day.
It is said that while
