ruger National Park is a vast untamed wilderness where lions, rhinos, elephants and other wild animals roam freely, but the
massive park’s borders are sometimes breached by a network of highly skilled and motivated poachers. High temperatures often reach north of 110 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer months. These are some of the formidable challenges that the South African National Parks (SANParks) Air Services has to navigate.
The Kruger National Park borders Mozambique on its eastern side and Zimbabwe on the north. SANParks Air Services provides the aerial support required for over two million hectares (nearly five million acres) at this park, as well as the other 19 parks of SANParks across South Africa. Rhino poachers are a huge problem nationwide, although numbers have generally been declining since 2015.