Leopards thrown 11th-hour lifeline

Big cats’ translocation halted for now after conservation body steps in

A conservation organisation has won an interim court interdict halting the translocation of four leopards from a Steytlerville farm to a safari property near Makhanda.

The leopards were going to be translocated from the Karoo farm, where they were resident, to Buffalo Kloof, a hunting and conservation business co-owned by Warne Rippon...

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