South Africa's biodiversity management is set for a significant overhaul, with the draft National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Bill now open for public comment.
A zero trophy hunting quota for 2016
Guidelines for the allocation of leopard trophy hunting quotas
Implementation of urgent measures to facilitate sustainable use of leopard populations, which would include norms and standards for the management and monitoring of leopard hunts.
The zero-hunting quota, specifically, enabled the Scientific Authority to monitor the leopard population over three hunting seasons.
The main topics touched on during the hearing included the establishing of leopard hunting zones (LHZ) as well as quotas for these zones and also the age and gender of leopards that qualify for being hunted.
Only males above the age of seven qualify as huntable. Boshoff said by this age, a male is likely to have mated with a female and thus will have produced offspring.
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