RHINOS ALIVE !

PROPOSED

CORRECTIVE MEASURES

South African Hunters and

Game Conservation

Association

Danie Venter: CEO SAHGCA (30-05-2012)

Rhino Conservation is a South African

success story with 93% of the world’s

White Rhino in this country !

Black market price for Rhino horn:

US$ 65,000 / kg = R520,000-00 /kg

@ ± 5kg horn/rhino

The 200+ Rhinos poached between

1 Jan and end May 2012

netted US$ 65,000,000 for criminal syndicates

and US$ 0-00 for Rhino conservation.

= R520 million

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OUR TRACK RECORD:

AFRICA’S BLACK RHINO POPULATION

From 68,000 animals in 1965

to 2,134 animals in 1995

(65,866 animals in 30 years)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros

Roughly 2,195 animals per

annum

OUR TRACK RECORD:

AFRICA’S ELEPHANT POPULATION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant

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1850 1900 1945 1960 1990

From 1,4 million animals in 1945

to 600,000 in 1990

(800,000 animals in 45 years)

Roughly 17,777 animals per

annum

OUR TRACK RECORD:

AFRICA’S LION POPULATION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant

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1850 1900 1945 1960 1990

From 400,000 animals in 1965 to

47,000 in 2005

(353,000 animals in 40 years)

Roughly 967 animals per

annum

Its clear we are loosing our wild populations of

Rhino, Elephant and Lion in Africa, which leads to the

value of the products of these animals constantly

increasing

R 144 million up in smoke

We can thus not afford to

see valuable assets go up in

smoke while conservation

can barely pay for itself –

let alone pay for

anti-poaching actions.

HARD FACT:

where wildlife is utilised in a sustainable manner,

all over the world, there it flourishes, because it

has a value as an important resource

HARD FACT:

Scarcity of resource results in increase in price and

feeds the illegal trade resulting in increased

poaching

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HARD FACT:

We have to force the black market price of

Rhino horn, Elephant ivory and Lion body parts down

through responsible and controlled legal trade.

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Demand the immediate down-listing of South Africa’s

white rhino from Appendix II to Appendix III of CITES;

THE SAHGCA PROPOSAL:

Review South Africa’s membership of CITES and allow

our own conservation authorities to strictly manage the

trade in the products of high profile animals effectively

and responsibly, according to properly negotiated legal

trade agreements with other countries;

Establish one single co-ordinating body with executive

powers from skilled and qualified experts from

government and private entities who already manage

anti-rhino-poaching initiatives under the supervision of

DEA,

This body to also manage anti-poaching measures,

and administer the national and international trade in

rhino horn using the traceability created through

compulsory DNA profiling of all Rhino in this country

(also Elephant ivory and Lion body parts);

Implement appropriate electronic databases that will

provide immediate statistical data on the permitting

system, the content of the national stockpile of rhino

horn, the sale of rhino horn from these stockpiles, the

sale of relevant veterinarian medicine, the incidence of

diseases, and any other such database that will assist

the co-ordinating body to manage their task

realistically;

Appoint the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at

Onderstepoort as principal DNA collecting and storing

facility for a centralised system of traceability of all

rhino horn in this country; and

Strictly implement the stipulations of the new

Norms & Standards for Rhino management as quick

as possible and transfer the administration thereof to

the suggested co-ordinating body.