South Africa Delays T & E Regs

Due to on-going concerns from the provincial authorities in South Africa about the challenges of implementing the new hunting regulations, Marthinus Van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs & Tourism, has announced that the policy implementation will be pushed back to February 1, 2008. The original implementation date was June 1, 2007. Van Schalkwyk stated that “no further postponement will be considered†and the Minister called on all stakeholders to ensure that they are ready for the implementation on February 1, 2008.

The regulations apply to protected species, such as the black rhino, white rhino, lion, roan antelope, etc. The full list of affected species from today’s announcement will be placed on Safari Club’s website soon at www.safariclub.org under Government/International. SCI’s comments on the proposed rules and the full regulations can be found there as well. As always, we will keep you posted.