The implications of the reclassification of South African wildlife species as farm animals

Michael J.  Somers; Michele Walters; John Measey; W. Maartin Strauss; Andrew A. Turner; Jan A. Venter; Lizanne Nel; Graham I.H. Kerley; W. Andrew Taylor; Yoshan Moodley

doi:10.17159/sajs.2020/7724

The implications of the reclassification of South African wildlife species as farm animals

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Michael J. Somers Eugène Marais Chair of Wildlife Management, Mammal Research Institute, Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5836-8823
Michele Walters Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8302-3408
John Measey Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9939-7615
W. Maartin Strauss Department of Environmental Science, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3087-1937
Andrew A. Turner 1. CapeNature Biodiversity Capabilities, Cape Town, South Africa; 2. Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1004-5723
Jan A. Venter School of Natural Resource Management, George Campus, Nelson Mandela University, George, South Africa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4548-2571
Lizanne Nel South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association, Pretoria, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0502-3132
Graham I.H. Kerley Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2702-5200
W. Andrew Taylor Endangered Wildlife Trust, Johannesburg, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2896-5168
Yoshan Moodley Department of Zoology, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4216-2924

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/7724

Keywords:

game breeding, conservation, wildlife economy, environmental law, extralimital

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2020-01-29

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Somers, M. J. ., Walters, M., Measey, J., Strauss, W. M., Turner, A. A., Venter, J. A., … Moodley, Y. (2020). The implications of the reclassification of South African wildlife species as farm animals. South African Journal of Science, 116(1/2). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/7724

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Vol. 116 No. 1/2 (2020)

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