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Succesful Kirkwood Wildlife Auction
www.MyAddo.co.za: Disease-free buffalo from Addo Elephant National Park once again received top prices on the Kirkwood
Wildlife Auction, raising funds for the SANParks Park Development Fund, used to subsidise the
expansion of national parks.
The auction, held on 28 June 2008 as part of the Kirkwood Wildlife Festival, saw buffalo reaching top
prices of R180 000 per animal for a family group. The top price for a buffalo bull was R127 000. Four
spotted hyena were sold on the auction at R5 600 per hyena. Red hartebeest, black wildebeest and
eland from Mountain Zebra National Park were also sold on the auction. Over R3.36 million was raised
in total.
White rhino from Kruger National Park were sold on catalogue with one of the rhino bulls generating a
whopping R640 000.