Angola: Hunters Detained With Jaguar Killed in Iona Park

Lubango — Two poachers, aged 30 and 34, were arrested, Wednesday, in the city of Lubango, Huíla province, in possession of a jaguar killed in the Iona National Park, in Namibe.

Hunting in Angola is prohibited in conservation areas, such as natural reserves or national parks, in ecosystems and protected habitats of migratory species, in watering holes and bird sleeping places, and the jaguar is one of the animals on the verge of extinction, therefore, protected.

The suspects, with the animal…