And so KNP will fall, these idiots will decimate the wildlife and Kruger will die all they see is money, they don't care about anything else as long as they can get their grubby dirty paws on more money for their outrages lives if these plans materialises Kruger will be gone in 5 to 7 years
This small businesses they want to help will also fail because these clowns don't have a clue how to run any business, with now propper training and education it will go the way most goverment projects go..... Watch this space
That's a picture a bit catastrophic, Harry. Maybe they will do it properly. We must at least give them a chance
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela The desire for equality must never exceed the demands of knowledge
Once you agree that a PA has to be managed, you have to earn the management cost and you have these options:
- tax payers
- wildlife sales (living or dead or products) for consumption
- sales of wildlife products such as horns, leather, bones, claws, teeth and ivory for deco, cloths, souvenirs, status symbols, magic purposes
- sales of other resources (medical plants, fire wood, souvenirs etc)
- sales of wildlife for the hunting market (also indirect for breeders catering for the hunting market)
- sales of wildlife for conservation
- sales of wildlife to zoos, collectors, the pet market
- photographic and other recreational tourism (incl event, business and adventure tourism) - high end or mass tourism has different levels of impact
- hunting tourism
- philantropy (donations, management work by NGOs)
- concessions (rent some areas out for commercial use such as non-consumptive or consumptive tourism or maybe other concessions for breeding, harvesting etc)
- sales of licenses (for conducting tourism operations, filming, commercial operations such as running a shop or a spa etc)
BTW: SANParks have always hunted for meat (just not large scale commercial but rather for consumption by staff and tourists)
Which of these listed operations are most harmful to wildlife, biodiversity, ecosystem?
I don't agree Klippies, this is a National park not a farm, Sanparks are supposed to protect the animals, plants etc not destroy it .
I say again this money will end up in their corrupt pockets
Wildlife and general outdoor tourism does definetely damage to wildlife.
Disturbance by humans can impact on wildlife in ways comparable to predation (or hunting which is a kind of predation). This includes effects such as increased vigilance, fleeing behaviour, change in habitat selection, reduction in fitness, parental investment, effects on energy expenditure, resource acquisition, animal condition and reproductive success. Watching animals often causes animals not engaging in behaviour to increase their fitness.
We must be honest and admit that our presence as tourists has an impact on wildlife and depending on our behaviour and our numbers it might be worse than hunting which also has an impact on animal behaviour besides reducing animal numbers.
Yes, impala were shot for rations under the old and new regime by rangers, but that was stopped once staff began selling the meat...
I have no problem with culling, but it cannot be ad hoc and selective, and must be dictated by overpopulation of animals. Hence my repeated reference to elephant and their ability to feed ALL the surrounding communities sustainably forever!
Klipspringer wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:04 pm
Why don't they remove all warthog from Addo? Is it a valuable source of income to sell them for culling every year?
This might answer my question: Warthogs are food for lions to keep the predation on buffalo low in order to generate revenue from buffalo sales.
So management decisions are guided not only by managing biodiversity and the involved processes such as predation but also by generating income from animal sales, this is the approach of farming rather than conservation and it is called sustainable use
Question: Since the park is a conservation area, why do they cull animals? Shouldn’t they give some of the meat to local community members / churches?
Official response
The Park Manager explained that the park has adopted the adaptive management approach. Culling is the last resort and is used to ensure that the animals does not overgaze the park. Warthogs are an introduced species, it’s also an alternative food supply to the lions keeping the predation on
the buffalo low. Unfortunately they are multiplying at a rapid rate and as such they are negetively impacting the ecosysytem. Warthogs are the only animals currently being culled. Sometimes tenders are awarded to cull animals.
SANParks is not allowed to provide meat to neighbouring communities due to the possibility of the animals being infected with diseases. There are approximately 34 000 people in the Sundays River Valley and only about 300 warthogs can be culled per year. It will be a massive challenge to decide who will receive meat and who not. The supply is never going to meet the demand. The Darlington Dam fish harvesting project is a community business that harvests, cleans and packages fish for the market.
SANParks is not allowed to provide meat to neighbouring communities due to the possibility of the animals being infected with diseases.
But they can sell it See the posts on the Skukuza abattoir
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela The desire for equality must never exceed the demands of knowledge
all they see is money, they don't care about anything else as long as they can get their grubby dirty paws on more money for their outrages lives 
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