African Wildlife & Environment Issue 83

ECO HERO

All the players in a cricket match between the Skukuza Cricket Club and the KNP Rangers in 1988. Salomon is in the front row (first from the left) and I am next to him (second from the left).

significantly to the development of some important management policies which, under Salomon’s direction, were incorporated in the first comprehensive ‘Management Plan for the Kruger National Park’ in 1986. Piloting skills put to the test During the EAS surveys in 1980, the aircraft suffered a sudden engine failure while Sollie was in the pilot’s seat. He had time only to get off a radio message of their plight to Hugo van Niekerk, the Park’s helicopter pilot who was standing by for the aerial vaccination of Roan against the deadly disease, anthrax. They were flying at an altitude

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