SANParks' Culling Policy

[Toko]

Culling: Antelope, ostrich and warthog in several National Parks on offer:

Herbivore culling sanparks .pdf

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Sourece: https://www.sanparks.org/docs/groups_te ... to-bid.pdf (relevant info on page 11/12)

[nan]

Are they wild parks... or places to kill

and not a lot of large Antelopes (I think of West Coast)

[Toko]

It would be perfectly inline with SANParks mission if they would give the surplus animals to the adjacent communities - but it's much talk and less real benefit sharing

[Richprins]

The successful service provider may not sub-contract the cull without prior written agreement with SANParks.

This is the important part....

This question of private culling was raised with elephant and other species during the days of "fortress conservation" when the bigwigs at SANParks were still teenagers. I think it is a marvelous idea if done properly!!!! Then it was shot down due to public outcry, so the rangers had to waste time doing the culling.

So how the wheel has turned!

But this time round the lofty ideals of sustainable utilisation and community development will take a back seat to making tender money again, IMO.

It should read "SANParks provides protein to neighbouring communities"?

[Richprins]

Snap, Toks!

[Flutterby]

Crazy!! Now all of a sudden, the neighbouring communities don't matter...all about the money!

[Flutterby]

27/8/2016
Senseless jackal slaughter by SANPARKS in SA
By: Dr Erika Newton, Editor: Journal of Applied Ecology

In 2010 SANPARKS culled over 300 jackals in three National Parks in what was the largest massacre of a wild predator species ever executed in South Africa. They believed (wrongly, as it turned out) that jackals were causing the reduction of springbok populations in the parks.

Following the cull in the Karoo National Park, SANPARKS discarded 132 jackal carcasses without any scientific investigation.

They then released 2500 springbok into the Karoo National Park.

Despite the horrific jackal slaughter, a count of the springbok population a mere 6 months after their release, showed that an estimated 2000 springbok had died. Clearly, SANPARKS had misinterpreted the reason for the decline in the number of Springbok.

Unwilling or unable to accept that the jackal cull had been a ghastly mistake, SANPARKS and NMMU scientists Graham Kerley, L, Minnie and G. Gaylard went ahead and once again decided to massacre more than 300 jackals in the three national parks between 2011 and 2013.

To make this whole wasted exercise worse, the authors then published a paper with the Journal of Applied Ecology London, where they sought to analyse the difference between age group structures of the jackals massacred in the three parks, where ‘they had not been persecuted previously’, and those animals on farmland, where they are continually persecuted.

The 2010 massacre would have vitiated the findings, since thereafter, the few surviving parks jackals could hardly be put forward as ‘un-persecuted.’ So, the authors dealt with this inconvenient truth by ignoring it. Unbelievably, the authors decided not to disclose the 2010 jackal massacres in their paper.

So 600 jackals were slaughtered for no good scientific reason, other than to produce a tendentious, unscientific and flawed paper. This worthless paper was then published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, giving it an unmerited credibility.

Despite demand by concerned conservationists, researchers and scientists, the Journal has failed to withdraw the paper and publish an apology.

Complain to:

Prof Andrew Leitch, NMMU, Port Elizabeth Andrew.Leitch@nmmu.ac.za


http://www.cannedlion.org/blog/senseles ... arks-in-sa

[Mel]

Unbelievable!

[Richprins]

Must rather complain to the Journal of applied Ecology!

[stefan9]

Disgusting...