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October 09, 2008 Edition 1
WINDHOEK: A German aristocrat is scheduled to appear in court in Namibia today on suspicion of killing scores of endangered mountain zebra.
Christian Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 28, is alleged to have killed the animals at a private game reserve owned by his father 70km south-west of the capital, Windhoek.
The zebra were allegedly slaughtered between 2001 and 2005 and their carcasses buried on the farm.
A local farmer alleged the actual number of zebra killed by Zu Hohenlohe totalled several hundred. It was not clear whether they were killed for meat or for their skins.
Police and Namibian wildlife protection officials had merely dug up 193 as a sample, Namibia's German-language Allgemeine Zeitung reported yesterday.
Under Namibian law, hunters may only kill eight mountain zebra a year, provided they have a permit.
Zu Hohenlohe's father, Max Gottfried Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, bought the farm in 1982. The farm was declared bankrupt earlier this year.
The case will be heard in a magistrate's court in the town of Rehoboth.
Mountain zebra are indigenous to south-western Africa. There are two subspecies of mountain zebra.
The equus zebra is endangered and the equus zebra hartmannae is threatened. - Sapa-dpa
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