The International wildlife ranching symposium was held in Windhoek, Namibia mid September and Arthur and
Trinette attended. There were 22 international and local speakers. The venue was the Safari Hotels and
the organization by well known conservation experts, Prof van Hooven, Dr. Dry and Dr. Peter Oberem
and others was fantastic.
It is amazing how exotic game to various countries have been accepted as native game all over the world
except South Africa
Today human management is the important issue rather than believing game can be left to nature to
fend for themselves as the world has become overpopulated with modern infrastructure.Cites having
their international 4 yearly conference in South Africa at present has many doubts. It is alleged that
money voting NGO’s are being bought by the ‘Greenies’ to sway votes.
Ranching has outstripped government’s nature conservation controlled departments – retarding
growth. Ranching in South Africa has been accepted by the Department of Agriculture as an agricultural
activity and to be governed as wild ‘livestock’. The next international wildlife ranching symposium will
be in Spain
10 Oct 2016