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Not worldwide when it has to do with race :X: You can make a preference for a certain age class, language or nationality, but not colour of the skin.


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A new chapter in SANParks wildlife economy programme: SANParks now also involved in developing biodiversity economy hubs for the surrounding communities.

https://www.sanparks.org/groups/public- ... losure.php

https://www.sanparks.org/docs/groups_pu ... e/esmf.pdf

https://www.sanparks.org/docs/groups_pu ... re/sep.pdf



Protected Areas (PAs) have significant potential to contribute to the Biodiversity Economy
and serve as local ‘development hubs’ by promoting economic activities in the landscape
they are embedded in. Through nature-based tourism, PAs have the potential of
contributing to the economy, and a multiplier impact on the well-being of people,
especially rural communities living around PAs, through the creation of jobs, alternative
opportunities for local economic development, education and activism for the protection
of the valuable biodiversity of the PA system.
In addition to tourism, a key pillar of the biodiversity economy is the wildlife sector. The
wildlife economy is centred on game and wildlife farming/ ranching activities that relate
to the stocking, trading, breeding, and sustainable safari hunting of game, and all the
services and goods required to support this value chain. The wildlife economy is regulated
by the public sector and operationalized by the private sector with support from academic
and research organizations. The wildlife sector has been growing consistently faster than
the general economy, contributing USD203 mill to GDP in 20146, with stable growth of
6% per annum in jobs from 2008 to 2013 (Wildlife Lab Report, 2016). The NBE Strategy
estimated that the sector could reach a USD950 mill contribution to GDP and double the
number of jobs by 2030. Specific targets for 2030 are to: (i) create 60,000 additional jobs,
(ii) improve and develop 2 million hectares of private owned, communal and restituted
land for conservation and commercial game ranching, (iii) enable USD475 mill in new
equity in the sector - USD272 mill in game, and USD203 mill in fixed assets and
infrastructure.
A targeted 300,000 heads of wildlife would be owned by black-empowered or black-owned
ranches. Equity in the sector by communal landholders and land reform beneficiaries is
seen as enabling improved income, skills development, institutional capacity building,
entrepreneurship, food and environmental security. Promotion of more inclusive naturebased
tourism development around the PA system will be prioritized so that rural
communities historically excluded from commercial opportunities may instead share the
benefits of living round these biodiversity hotspots, be included in the local socio-economic
development process deriving from the sector, and become aware and active stewards of
biodiversity conservation.
1.2.2 Proposed Development Objectives
The project development objectives (PDO) is to leverage financial resources and improve
capacity to implement the Biodiversity Economy and increase benefits from selected PA
landscapes to local communities. The project performance toward the PDO will be
measured through three key outcome indicators detailed below:
i. Area of community land brought under biodiversity stewardship in protected area
landscapes
ii. Volume of public and private sector resources leveraged10 for wildlife economy
iii. Number of small businesses in biodiversity economy nodes supported to start or expand operations
1.3.1 Project Components
The project’s geographical focus is at two scales – firstly in selected target landscapes, and
secondly at national level for replication and scale-up. The three project landscapes also
correspond to ‘biodiversity economy nodes’ as defined by DEFF and are: (i) the Greater
Addo-Amathole Node in the Eastern Cape Province, (ii) the Greater Kruger-Limpopo
Node in Limpopo Province, and (iii) the Greater iSimangaliso Node in KwaZulu-Natal
Province (see Annex 9 for project map). Through supporting multi-stakeholder platforms
for coordination, planning and investment in the biodiversity economy nodes, the project
will support an Integrated Landscape Management approach, which recognizes the value
of connected natural resource management across different land uses at the landscape level
as a basis for enhancing people’s livelihoods, security and resilience to climate variability
and change. The three components are as follows:
Implementing a new national game meat strategy.
DEFF is cooperating with the
Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform (DARDLR) and a
range of private sector and civil society stakeholders, to formalize the South African
game meat industry, and create a network of game meat processing facilitates (targeting
110 new facilities producing 18,500 tons of venison31 with 2,500 new jobs and USD110
million in annual revenue within 4 years). A national game meat strategy will soon be
under preparation, co-financed by DEFF. This subcomponent will enable the
Directorate: Wildlife Economy in DEFF to develop an implementation plan for the new
zstrategy, using the three project nodes as a pilot. A service provider contracted by
DEFF will draw on the emerging strategy, existing market and value chain analyses,
and extensive work done by NGOs on sustainable red meat initiatives and
certification32, to advise the target communities, conservation agencies and local
entrepreneurs who are forming partnerships to expand the supply of game meat through
new game-ranching activities, and to establish new abattoir / venison processing and
by-products facilities in each node. The nodes will provide a “living laboratory” for the
roll-out of the new game meat strategy and feed lessons into the national process.
Building institutional capacity for spatial planning and mainstreaming in
biodiversity economy nodes.
This work will be overseen by a project national
biodiversity economy spatial planning advisor, hosted by SANBI. This advisor’s main
role will be to help build the institutional capacity of SANParks and iSimangaliso as
the sub-executing agencies coordinating the nodes. This will be achieved by providing
a technical advice service to the project node coordinators and their teams on (i) tools
and techniques for conducting participatory land use planning with communities in the
nodes, to produce site-specific Conservation and Development Framework plans for
community-owned land – (as part of Subcomponent 1.1); (ii) spatial planning and GIS
aspects of the Biodiversity Economy Node Master Plans; (iii) best means for
integration of biodiversity economy node objectives into the spatial and land-use
planning elements of IDPs, SDFs, LED plans, and the District-Based Service Delivery
Model; and (iv) accessing national spatial data on critical biodiversity areas and
ecological support areas through the Biodiversity-GIS system (B-GIS) and various
fine-scale systematic conservation planning processes coordinated by SANBI. Having
high-level technical advice, provided through regular visits by the advisor to the nodes,
will help the node teams to ensure that the biodiversity economy vision is infused into
local government thinking and planning, and also that existing spatial and management
plans, as well as maps of critical biodiversity areas and ecological support areas, are
used to inform the node platforms. Coordination with the relevant provincial and local
government departments will also be facilitated, especially ECPTA, LEDET and
EKZNW.
etc.


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A targeted 300,000 heads of wildlife would be owned by black-empowered or black-owned
ranches.


No whites allowed! :-0

expand the supply of game meat through
new game-ranching activities, and to establish new abattoir / venison processing and
by-products facilities in each node. The nodes will provide a “living laboratory” for the
roll-out of the new game meat strategy and feed lessons into the national process.


Kruger elephants beware! :twisted: 0()


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Eish /ou/ /ou/


Next trip to the bush??

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" Biodiversity Economy" must be another new expression, which will be difficult to explain in few words. I am still trying to fully understand what the heck they are meaning :-?

Lots of great plans, but how will they manage to develop all these money-making projects? First they will have to find the right subjects and then teach them how to do the jobs.

Is Sanparks going to take charge of the investments? It will cost a whole lot of money O**

I wonder if this was planned before the coronavirus took over the country -O-


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This is not new and it's a plan to facilitate wildlife industries, such as breeding, ranching etc and SANParks must assist the communities.

It started long ago with game donations for hunting farms etc.

Not only SANPArks and Kruger involved, there are 3 hubs on the cards:

- Greater iSimangaliso Wetland Park Node – by the iSimangaliso Wetland Park
- Greater Addo to Amathole Node - Addo Elephant National Park and Greater Fish Nature Reserve
- Greater Kruger-Limpopo Node - Greater Kruger Co-operative and Kruger National Park


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I don't think that most of it is feasible :-? Are there schools with lectures for the preparation of the people that they intend to insert in this program -O-


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There is also training provided. A huge programme ;-)


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Leagalised Bush Meat going ahead ...


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Peter Betts wrote: Thu May 28, 2020 7:11 pm Leagalised Bush Meat going ahead ...
rather more game farming ...


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