After hikers alerted them to the attack, park wardens were flown in by helicopter.
Ishango is currently managed under the leadership of a park warden and five rangers.
Many park wardens were either killed or could not afford to continue their work.
Henry Engelbrecht was appointed as the first park warden.
A "caretaker's cottage" was built in the early part of the 20th century to house a park warden, typically a military veteran.
But like the park warden, the man didn't know this.
He had a photography store there and in 1911 ran for park warden.
The park warden there had set up an improvised beer shop for workers in the park.
According to park wardens, since 2006 about 38 animal traps have been found in the park.
They number up to five thousand now, after many of them suffering from the bullets and threats of the park wardens.