Eagle Encounters News Today

The Spier Winemaker’s Dinners are a showcase of the property’s very best offerings and the estate's raft of recent awards.

After two decades the local animal sanctuary Eagle Encounters has closed its doors.
In a statement from Spier, where the sanctuary was situated as a tenant, it said Eagle Encounters played “a significant role in wildlife rehabilitation in the Western Cape.”

The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) has reiterated its stance against the live export of animals by sea.

"Rico was a marshmallow wearing 'Deadpool' armour," his mother Rosa Steenkamp told TimesLIVE.

'Never seen such a reaction': Doctors were stunned that eight doses of antivenom could not save the life of snake handler Rico Pentz.

Messages expressing sadness and shock are pouring in for wildlife rehabilitation and education specialist Rico Pentz, from Strand near Cape Town, who died after a cobra bit him.

Condolences continue to pour in for the family of Stellenbosch snake catcher Rico Pentz who died after being bitten by a Cape cobra.

A recent operation saw SPCA conduct a raid of Eagle Encounters at the popular Spier Wine Farm. What they found was shocking ...