Mkenya2019: How much do you think South Africa makes from hunting; and from Safaris? It seems to be less than 100M dollars. I bet Safaris bring more money.
South Africa has biggest hunting industry - the figures are grim - not even 1 percent of what safari/photography tourism generates.
Trophy hunting accounts for a fraction of the R323 billion that tourism contributed to South Africa’s GDP in 2013. About 8,500 trophy hunters visit South Africa each year, compared to around 9.5 million tourists.
Now factor in the taxidermy costs, accommodation, the fact that 99% of foreign hunters in SA also go on photo safaris, the money from the meat of these animals, the leather industry, the food industry(game meat is expensive in fancy restaurants) and most important the game breeding industry which exists thanks to hunting and in terms of value is near a $1 billion....
kikuyu2: Hunting makes economic sense! That should be the end of the debate.
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Like I said earlier our hunting ban may be intentionally to keep prices high elsewhere. Many marginal areas also can't support any other industry-you know 90% of Kenya is ASAL.
Saddamochieng00: Good editing skills Laiitjie. But if I may ask what pleasure does a grown man derive from cowardly hiding behind bushes just to shoot harmless animals like deer and ostriches. I really don't get it.
no flatty, I couldn't be further from a feminist.... What I'm doing is just qouting the bible and destroying the argument that the bible is misogynistic.
mtisTheQubit: The saffas brought their castle beer to the land of Maasai.. didnt take long before the warrior's murdered it..RIP castle beer from land of saffas
mtisTheQubit: They're the same my guy..all it's about dominance...trying to dominate the other species, whether it's a girl or an animal in this case...
Shma2020: Bro. It's true what rvp2018 is saying. On a grand scheme of things, atheist are generally smarter and more intelligence than an average religious man.
What you've said is also true. Intelligence — in rationally solving problems — can be understood as involving overcoming instinct and being intellectually curious and thus open to non-instinctive possibilities they just want to explore their thinking as they view things in their own perspective. That will not dispute the fact that there is a superior being somewhere.. It's just a matter of time before they come to reality.
There is this genius psychologist in USA by the name Jordan Peterson. This guy used to be an atheist. He later came to his senses and realized that there is a superior being somewhere. The dude is now a bone again Christian - give rvp time
White River -- World Wildlife Fund (WWF) welcomes the news today of a 33 percent reduction in the number of rhinos lost to poaching in South Africa in 2020 and ongoing decline in the number of rhinos lost annually to poaching over the last six years.
wow that's even more sad that you've bolded it and still can't understand the sentence.
Mkenya2019: Article say you about 3k rhinos and your killing about 300 - through poaching - that means if you continue in 10yrs - you could finish them.
the rhino population is nearly 20000 in SA not 3000.....also like most living things they procreate.....
Mkenya2019: I am suprised they are killing that many rhinos - almost 10 percent - every year due to poaching. He is just happy to that "useless" animals have increased but critical animals are facing extinction.
the rhino population in SA decrease by 1% even when poaching was at its peak
Shma2020: You're the problem in SA. See why your government had to say about the declining rhino population.
The Kruger National Park in South Africa is where most of the country's rhino are being slaughtered. Authorities are battling to protect the species from poaching gangs. As South Africa marked World Ranger Day on Saturday, the country's environmental authorities announced a setback in efforts to conserve the country's rhinos. From January to the end of June 2021, 249 rhino have been poached for their horn in South Africa," said Barbara Creecy, the minister of environment, forestry and fisheries in a statement.
This figure is higher than the amount poached during the same period in 2020.
The country had been under a hard lockdown because of COVID-19 during much of that period. As lockdown restrictions have eased, authorities have seen an uptick in poaching activity.
South Africa's poaching problem South Africa is battling to counter poaching syndicates who operate in the country's vast national parks. A large proportion of the slaughter took place in the Kruger National Park, where 132 rhinos were killed .
On other hand, Kenya rhino population had increased by nearly 30% since 2017 - thanks for wildlife conservationists.
Lion population going by two countries are nearly the same. TZ is the real champ there.
Other big 5. The likes of elephants, buffaloes etc. You can bring the stats.
as for lions:
That's just the free roaming population,there are over 10000 lion on private land in South Africa
Shma2020: You're the problem in SA. See why your government had to say about the declining rhino population.
The Kruger National Park in South Africa is where most of the country's rhino are being slaughtered. Authorities are battling to protect the species from poaching gangs. As South Africa marked World Ranger Day on Saturday, the country's environmental authorities announced a setback in efforts to conserve the country's rhinos. From January to the end of June 2021, 249 rhino have been poached for their horn in South Africa," said Barbara Creecy, the minister of environment, forestry and fisheries in a statement.
This figure is higher than the amount poached during the same period in 2020.
The country had been under a hard lockdown because of COVID-19 during much of that period. As lockdown restrictions have eased, authorities have seen an uptick in poaching activity.
South Africa's poaching problem South Africa is battling to counter poaching syndicates who operate in the country's vast national parks. A large proportion of the slaughter took place in the Kruger National Park, where 132 rhinos were killed .
On other hand, Kenya rhino population had increased by nearly 30% since 2017 - thanks for wildlife conservationists.
Lion population going by two countries are nearly the same. TZ is the real champ there.
Other big 5. The likes of elephants, buffaloes etc. You can bring the stats.
and? 70% of SAs wildlife is in private hands..... And Rhino poaching has decreased every year since rhino horn trade has been legalized again.... Besides since the legalisation of rhino horn our rhino have increased in numbers as well.
Did I mention our game population is growing at 20%p.a?
if christainity never got to Africa and Asia and Australia and the Americas
would all those people go to hell? for instance me my historical religion is orishá belief systems,if the British and Portuguese didn't bring christainity to Nigeria about 600 years ago,would all my tribesmen die and go to hell? and if the grandfather of my grandfather died with his worship of Sango and Ogun etc did he go to hell fire?
Mkenya2019: Embarrassed by your primitive country men - look like 100 people lynching one cow. You should lend them your gun or arrow - and put it to sleep.
literally the same happens in your country? So what's your point?
Mkenya2019: Unlike Nigeria (and I bet Ghana) at least kenya nearly every cattle is killed in abattoirs - and slaughter houses. What is missing is just gas chambers.
Kenya use to export beef to Europe and Middle east - but we dropped the ball. Now it's Botswana that does that.