South Africa’s Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, replied as follows to questions posed to her during sessions in the country’s National Assembly:

Wildlife conservation hasn’t escaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

South Africa is the most popular hunting destination on the continent. The wealth of species on offer, the wide range of hunting experiences, overall affordability and fantastic infrastructure all contribute to a world-class African hunting destination.

The South African game industry is so vast and so integrated with countless facets of what exactly game. Over the ensuing 25 years, an industry, unique to South Africa (and Namibia), has sprung up occupying 20m ha (20%) of South Africa’s marginal agricultural land.

South Africa’s experiment in ‘wildlife privatisation’ is under threat from the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures to contain it.

In a world first, the single largest GPS satellite tagging of giraffes has taken place in Kenya.