A man’s mauled body was found half-eaten by lions on the Ingwelala Private Nature Reserve in South Africa. It was apparent the man was trespassing during the night and, with a rifle found nearby the body, most likely a poacher. A victim of the hunter becoming the hunted, a pride of lions he may have been hunting stalked him instead, eventually attacking and eating much of his body.
The Ingwelala Reserve and surrounding area are known for attracting rhino poachers. However, many other types of game, including lions, reside on the reserve and a nearby national park. A rhino horn is worth a large sum of money, as are the tusks of elephants. These animals are regularly slaughtered for relatively small parts of their bodies. Most often, the horns and tusks are sold both legally and illegally in Asia for decorative carvings or bogus medicine. Other animals are poached for meat, hides, or other even retaliation for livestock killings. Though many people resort to these abhorrent and criminal acts as a way to survive, poaching is an epidemic, bringing some species, like rhinos, to the brink of extinction.
Sign: Stop Brutal Rhino Poaching Before The Species Goes Extinct
Lions are not the targets of poaching as often as rhinos and elephants because of their lower market value. However, body parts like teeth, claws, and bones can be sold for profit, and the trade has been increasing over the past few years. Many lions have been found with heads, paws, and tails chopped off, or entire hides removed. Poaching is just one more threat to lions, whose populations have decreased as much as 40% in the past three generations according to the World Wildlife Fund. Losing space to live and hunt and clashing with humans have contributed to their decline.
Though we may never know exactly what the trespasser was hunting for that night on the Ingwelala Reserve, we can be sure that no more animals will die at his hands and that the lions will remember what an easy prey humans can be, especially in the dark.

The intent this poacher had was terrible so it was deserved.
JUSTICE IS SERVED! I’m celebrating!
Too bad all the fu…….. poachers aren’t eaten !
Good!!!!!!! This is an excellent start!
GOOD RIDDANCE! HOPE IT HAPPENS MORE OFTEN. EYE FOR AN EYE BITCH’S.
I am Glad he got eaten by the lions! He asked for it!
A fate worthy of all hunters. Two thumbs up to the lions.
YAY!!!!! May ALL poachers end up the same way!!!!!!
Good! Hope his flesh tasted better than his soul.
Ha, Ha!!
Hope they don’t get a bad stomache
Fab news on the bastard poacher! ?
Best news of the day – I just hope the lions didn’t get sick eating this cruel piece of scum – good riddance to that piece of rubbish – yaaaaaay
Well done pussy cats.
Best laugh of the day.
Keep up the good work
As far as I’m concerned this poacher got what he apparently well Deserved and will no longer be a threat to these beautiful animals!
You reap what you sow.
I figure what goes around comes around. I don’t feel sorry for that person whatsoever. Animals are being slaughtered ruthlessly for money and it’s high time they be accountable for it. An eye for an eye!
Luv it! Karma at its best! Got a good chuckle out of Brenda Boutin’s comment-they saved the head to be mounted! LMAO! Take that, poachers! You go lions!
God forgive me but i have no sympathy for the poacher. It sounds like a heavy dose of KARMA to me. Hopefully other poachers will think of this before they deside to murder another animal. I doubt it though.
I would love this to happen to trophy hunters as well…..
LIONS 1
POACHER 0
GO LIONS!!!!!
What an excellent news ! It should happen more ! I’m happy, poachers less !
Karma.
This guy was given everything he had coming to him, I guess he forgot that lions hunt at night it looks like his gun didn’t help him to much. One down, hundreds left.
Oh dear. What goes around comes around.
Good. I hope this happens to all who kill these animals. I hope he had a family and that they tell his story
Well said
He got exactly what he deserved!
I think the lions left his head alone, so it probably could be mounted.
Now, that is a good one!
Now, that is a good one!
I love you Brenda. ?
Yay! Dead poacher!!!!! I love you lions ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please stop these poachers from going on lands that these animals are protected on…if they do make the punishment harsher….if they don’t feel they will be punished with more than a slap on the wrist they will continue killing these animals.
Kudos to the lions, this heartless, brain-dead cretin got exactly what he deserved, and the lions will fight to live another day. Hopefully, more poachers will get exactly the same ‘treatment’…….
Good for them! I love hearing stories like this ?
GOOD KARMA hope all the poachers end up this way,they deserve it
I hope he was eaten piece by piece ! I’m not sadistic but it’s for me the revenge of the lions on bad men !I love all the animals ! I’m with
6 associations of defense of the animals !!Excuse me for my English but I’ French !
Karma!
Brovo for the lions one less threat they have to worry about and he deserved it because he was where he shouldn’t have been after all at night and a gun hunting for something in a national park. Guess you might say stupidity paid the price. Good work lions take them out one at a time. Even if he was not hunting lions he had a gun so he was hunting for something and the lions just saved another animals live. Way to go no sympathy here.
Bravo! Lions unite against poachers! It may have not been a nice ending for that scumbag but it sure isn’t for the elephants, lions, tigers, etc. that are brutalized daily by creeps like him. Maybe the next low-life will think twice about murdering an animal for sport or for some mystical medicinal property. Karma is sweet!
Well, the Lions had to defend themselves. It is not nice, but the Lions do have to defend themselves from poachers, and they are wild – respect them and save them.
Awesome those lions would have been dead had they not defended themselves the only way they know how!
Was it a good meal? Lion told me that the poacher tasted like shit and he peed himself. How degusting! But hey, it was an easy catch!
Gerrit, I needed a laugh on this stressful day. Thank you for providing it!
Excellent. One scumbag less.
I love how KARMA comes around. Let this be an example to all poachers out there,” what goes around cones around”. God I love it….
well done lions pity that other wild life dont do the same to others who are poaching altho it could leave a nasty taste in their mouths !!! strike one for lions good news he shouldnt have been anywhere near any of them serves him right!!!
Good for the lions, score one for them. Hope they left the carcass to rot.
I hope he felt every bite.
GREAT NEWS !
The poacher got what he deserved. This should happen more often.
Can I say I believe that Karma dished her justice and not be put into the category of a “ranting nut?”
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Ha! Good enough for him! Good job lions! Get ’em all! He obviously had ill intent and looks like the animals are tired of it. GOOD JOB!
Them lions needed to have a training session for other animals called How to take Down your Enemy – No Questions Asked
Agreed 100%. Once other animals start taking down the ferocious homo sapiens, maybe humans will begin respecting other animal life.