On August 29, 2017, Herald Live published a supply-side dispatch from KwaZulu-Natal: rhino slaughter at a record high, with Hluhluwe-iMfolozi park identified as the documented epicenter of the poaching surge.
The piece runs in the same week as John Hume's auction (Posts 17-21), and the contrast is the editorial point of the August 2017 cluster: while South African policy was negotiating the legal-trade architecture in court, the supply-side reality was deteriorating in the field. Herald Live's reporting is the on-the-ground counterweight to the policy coverage.
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