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It will be embarrassing to try to persuade an international audience to fund emergency rhino protection funding while at the same time promoting the legal killing of rhino on private land.вЂќ вЂњWhile the illegal hunting of rhino continues unabated, men and women are risking their lives trying to protect this species. Setting hunting quotas for rhinos risks an international perception problem, says the EMS report.

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For elephants it was more varied: scapula bowl, leather skin panels, mounted tails, ears, footstools, part or whole trunks, foot umbrella, blood plasma, bagpipes (?), bracelets, skin duffle bags, feet ice buckets, ivory keys, a penis, teeth, belts and, of course, tusks and mounted heads.

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(Graphic: Professional Hunting Association)ДЇor leopards, these included floating bones (?), rug mounts, skull shields and claws. The EMS Foundation, which put in a 51-page objection to the rhino, elephant and leopard quotas, provides a grisly list of animal part вЂњmementosвЂќ for which export licences were requested. Of concern are a number of endangered species, some critically, including those for which the DFFE proposes to provide quotas. Then there are some extremely odd trophies such as snakes, llamas, mouflon sheep and emus. Turtle doves, speckled doves, laughing doves and ring-necked pigeons are the most hunted birds (are they mounted above the fireplace or just eaten?). Impala top the animal list, closely followed by warthogs, kudu and zebra (pretty mats?).

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Add hunting for meat plus poaching and the number could be double that, but these arenвЂ™t listed anywhere. During those years, 190,468 wild creatures were вЂњbaggedвЂќ as trophies - thatвЂ™s 171,748 wild mammals, 15,233 birds, 742 reptiles and 2,745 non-indigenous animals. Those for 2020 were not available, but hunt stats from 2016 to 2019 tell a startling story. They are, however, available on request if youвЂ™re persistent enough. The Professional Hunters Association of SA submits the statistics to the department - which doesnвЂ™t publish them. It also, for some reason, excludes certain enclosed properties. This excludes hunting for the pot, biltong and, of course, poaching.

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The proposed quotas, however, are merely small windows into a vast business of wildlife destruction which is generally unknown to the public.Д®ach year, professional hunters have to submit kill statistics to provincial departments which are then collated by the DFFE. This makes it difficult to find clients and match them to a leopard at such short notice,вЂќ said Dorrington. ItвЂ™s illegal to market a leopard hunt without a permit, so thereвЂ™s no way to market beforehand. Stewart Dorrington of Custodians of Professional Hunting and Conservation - South Africa says the problem his organisation has with the quota process is the timing. Will the decision be retrospective in order to regularise hunts that have already taken place, or are quotas going to be rolled forward into 2022? Proposed trophy hunting quotas. So weвЂ™re effectively talking about a quota set in, at best, December, for December.

But throughout this year, elephants have already been extensively hunted. And public inputs still have to be assessed. The proposed quotas are specifically for the calendar year 2021, which is nearly over. The NGOs also noted a number of fundamental procedural and legal flaws in the process for proposing the quotas. The setting of trophy hunting quotas for leopard, black rhino or elephant are therefore unsupportable, it argues. The quota, says EMS, appears to have been determined without taking relevant information into account and is вЂњirrational and arbitraryвЂќ. Humane Society International-Africa and EMS have called on the DFFE to withdraw the draft quota until it can put in place a procedurally fair process which includes publication of all the scientific and policy information on which the quotas were determined. вЂњThe quotas are arbitrary and not rationally connected to the information before the department,вЂќ said Michele Pickover of EMS.