Following the approval of the SANParks Elephant management plans, elephants from the Kruger National Park will be sold for the first time since 2008. The first sale was to take place in August (but was not confirmed due to permit requirements from buyers) and a second round is expected to take place again next year.
“an advertisemengt asking for bidding prices was put out for the elephant to be sold on the best price principal,” says Markus Hofmeyr, head of SANParks Veterinary Wildlife Services.
“There may be requests for donations, especially family groups, which we will be considered on a case by case basis,” he says. “these elephants are then moved and we only recover the cost of the capture and transport.”
Hofmeyr adds that the market for elephants is very limited as most areas that can take them already have.
Many reserves with elephants also want to move theirs. Yet there are still game farms in KwaZulu-Natal that can accommodate them and there are two properties that want bulls.
Income from the sales will go to the Parks Development Fund, which is used for SANParks conservation priority and conservation projects.
By the SANParks Times Newspaper
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