Police Aviation News January 2012
Police Aviation News January 2012
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<strong>Police</strong> <strong>Aviation</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 5<br />
Ivor [left] with Eric and Louis<br />
with the Seeker being loaned<br />
to the Kruger National Park<br />
Image ©Paramount<br />
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK: The park has reacted to a major rise in the number of<br />
rhino’s being killed has announced the deployment of a Seabird Seeker light observation<br />
aircraft ZS-SEE to help in reducing the losses. The Seeker is equipped with a surveillance<br />
sensor turret and operates from Skukuza Airport in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.<br />
The aircraft was donated by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, whose chairman, Ivor, also<br />
runs a South African defence company, the Paramount Group, Africa's largest privately held<br />
defence and aerospace organisation.<br />
Poaching has reached epidemic levels this year, with a record 598 rhinos killed so far,<br />
largely to meet booming demand for rhino horn in Asian countries as an aphrodisiac or a<br />
cure for cancer. [Times]