PRIVATE GAME WILDLIFE RANCHING

We are all living through something the severity of which we have never experienced before. There have, of course, been pandemics before, for example the plague or Black Death of the mid- 1300s, which is recorded as the most fatal pandemic in human h

The aftermath of the Corona pandemic will have lasting and profound effects on our future world. We cannot predict the full extent of the global effect on our social behaviour and the economic landscape, but have to accept it will be extensive. The

CONSERVATION | OUR STORY Buffalo Kloof Private Game Reserve is located in the scenic Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Privately owned and operated by Warne and Wendy Rippon, Buffalo Kloof started in 1999 as a 5 000 hectare family getaway. Slowl

Towards the end of 2018 private landowners in South Africa conserved roughly 40% of white rhinos globally and that figure may be closer to 50% in mid-2020. For the past decade these rhino owners, together with their counterparts in formal state conse

40 years ago, William Conway, a pioneer in conservation breeding, noted that breeding farms and ranches will be needed to provide sufficient land for conservation of species (De Wildt et al, 2019). Today, we are in a period of mass extinction. The su

Allan Savory was born in 1935 in the then Rhodesia. He is an ecologist, environmentalist and global consultant, the pioneer of Holistic Management, a process that helps ranchers and farmers to better manage resources by planning for and integrating a

Ever since the gigantic ‘Big Bang' explosion, a continued process of cooling of Earth's inner core are in process. Since forming of the outer mantel and first pockets of the crest and much later the super continents of Pangaea and Gondwana until the

Pecan trees grow on deep river bottom soils and are indigenous in riverine forests on the banks of rivers flowing through the central and southern United States and the northern parts of Mexico. They have strong root systems with a taproot that ancho

We can now add Covid-19 to the list of threats facing African wildlife. The international travel bans aiming to contain the virus are having negative impacts on tourism in Africa, where the hunting and photo-tourism industries provide a chief motivat

In our article published in Wildlife Ranching, issue 5 2019*, the article ‘Legal Labelling – How legal is my “game boerewors”?' stated: “The current challenge for the game meat industry in legal compliance lies in the lack of a game regulation.” The

Specialist Wildlife Scientist, Consultant & Lecturer (Ecology, Zoology, Game Production). SACNASP registered (Pr.Sci.Nat. 115086). M.Sc. Wildlife Management (Pta. 1992), awarded Captain Jack Scott Memorial Medal: S.A. National Academy Science & Art.

Establishments’ grading to be determined based on an ‘eco’ merit and demerit points calculation system. Internationally tourists are becoming more and more concerned about protecting the ecology, environment and protecting the Earth. When eco-certi

Adjusting from -30 to +30 degrees Celsius was not the real challenge, but there were other tests, such as balancing a clumsy three-legged pot on a firepit, and making fire without using a whole packet of firelighters. It comes naturally to South Af