With all the grim news out of Africa Re. hunting-Botswana Lion Hunting Ban, Tanzania raising trophy fees through the roof, Huge increases in rhino prices in SA, and it seems now Zimbabwe is about to be off limits to American hunters, ect.

Question:
Do you think safari hunting will exist in 20 years outside of game ranches?

Choices:
Yes
No

 

Everything should still be open to hunting but with higher fees and higher overall expenses.

My guess is that Namibia is going to be a prime hunting destination for African safaris in the next few years, at least until something happens there to change it. Moz maybe if it were a little easier to get your trophies back to the US.

Who knows where any of us will be in 20 years? I do not think this is the end of safari hunting. Everyone will regroup and "make a plan".

There are positive things happening too like groups trying to reopen Angola. Who ever thought that would happen? That's like California doing a mountain lion cull.

go back & read some of the older african books and you'll see the same predictions of having the sky fall are made then too. things are going to chance for sure, but as the old say goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. sometimes there's lots of wisdom in those sayings

The sky won't fall, the people will pay the prices just like they pay the gas prices, all this stuff on the internet will effect nothing in the hunting business, life will go on, hunting will go on in Africa and the doom is a long way off..

Nothing, not one thing,has changed in the last 40 years that I have been in business, but the doomsday folks seem to be populating, but most have not been to Africa and don't really know much about it..

Its just Zims turn in the barrel guys, maybe we'll get lucky, it wan't long ago that Kenya and Tanzania, Mozambique were in striff and they have survived.

I don't know the answers but Africa is hardy and can take a lick and keep on ticking, regime changes always desimate wildlife but it always comes back it you give it a little time.

Just my opinnion, but none of us knows s--t from shinola about the future of Africa.

What will occur and is happining TODAY as we speak is ........

More and more (entreprenuers and investors) will be aquiring (game fenced private ranches) which will prolifirate across regional southern africa and the (traditional large vast open areas) will diminish considerably as far as general hunting goes. These open area's will be turned more and more into (managed national parks) and the likes.

The battle is for habitat between people and animals, and in the end people will win and the animals habitat will shrink considerably.

Governments and other interested commercial entreprenuiers will be (taking large tracks of land) and turning them into conservation areas and managed national parks

Believe me this trend is picking up steam and that will continue into the future. I dont see any way to stop it as wildlife is under threat from poachers indiscriminate hunters and the general loss of habitat

Cheers, Peter