In our (Dutch) newspaper there was a small article last week in which was said that the SA government is planning a total ban on trophyhunting in fenced areas.

Has anyone heard of this?

See this thread:
Possible Ban On Canned Hunting

-Bob F.

Raindeer, as BFaucett said, the article was about "CANNED" hunting, not fenced properties. The law in RSA requires all hunting properties to be fenced, so the wildlife will not spread desease to other properties, or livestock. Dangerous game must be fenced in by electric fences. This is not canned hunting, which is the turning out of cages, animals into small pens to be shot, on demand. The fenced properties of RSA, are in most cases, very large, in the area of 750,000, to 1,000,000 acres, with no cross fences. The bush, in most, are very thick, and one can hunt for a week, and never see a fence!

That article was a pack of lies anyway, and written by anti-hunting groups to inflame the public against "ALL" hunting. The papers who run such articles should be required to verify the sourse, and validity of the content! Addtionally they should recieve a thousand letters per day from hunters till they respond with proof, of what they print!

Hasn't SA tried this before when they were trying to enforce rules about canned lion hunts in the free state? And they were told to piss off by the ranchers there?

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Originally posted by bwanajcj:
Hasn't SA tried this before when they were trying to enforce rules about canned lion hunts in the free state? And they were told to piss off by the ranchers there?

The Orange Free State is a seperate country, I beleave, so I don't think RSA has any say in what they do! Though it may be an RSA posession, but I don't think so. I've only hunted one 5 day plains game hunt in RSA, and didn't like it much. It seemed a little more like my home in Texas, than Africa, and I had to fly 16 hours to get there!