South Africa home to much of Africa’s iconic wildlife moves from conservation to commodity with talks of selling rhino horn. South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs is increasingly seeing wildlife a commodity to be marketed rather than protected and a currency for community development. This was made clear yesterday [July 24] at a Parliamentary report-back on the management of rhinos. It outlined licensing the sale of rhino horn and the gift of hundreds of thousands of wild animals for community farming. The Department’s position follows a month-long Rhino Laboratory held last year and was presented by a high-level panel consisting…
