Of the cases attended to 5 were poaching attempts involving 1 snared zebra and giraffe as well as 3 elephants with arrow or spear injuries. Two other elephants were attended to for natural causes, and a postmortem was carried out were cause of death was deemed natural. The Unit also rescued an impala from a deep pit and attended to a zebra with an open fracture that sadly had a poor prognosis, and the zebra was euthanised on welfare grounds.