Transcript Jacaranda – Dr Dry 2015

TSHWANE EVENTS CENTRE
DR. G.C. DRY
WRSA Past-President
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DICTATES REVIEW OF:
SUPPLY SIDE
WRSA Past-President: Dr GC Dry
• Scope of the Wildlife Ranching Industry
• Ideology & Culture underpinning Wildlife
Ranching
• Successes of Game Ranching in South Africa
• Conservation Failures Worldwide
• Wildlife Ranching Countering Worldwide Trends
• Profile of Investors & Owners
• Current Supply of Game Meat
• 2025 Forecast
DEMAND SIDE & GROWTH
PROJECTIONS
ABSA Agri: Ernst Janovski
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Private Game Ranchers:
16.8% of agricultural land
State owned Protected Areas:
6.1% of agricultural footprint
R20 billion annual contribution to GDP
20 million + heads of game in private ownership
6-8 million heads of game in Protected Areas
14-15 million head of cattle (9 million in commercial sector)
Investment:
• 20 million ha land utilized for game ranching @ R10 000/ha =
R200 billion
• Game, infrastructure & equipment = R200 billion
• Ownership
• Constitution, Common Law &
Game Theft Act (1991)
• Green Economic Principles &
Sustainable Use
• Love of Nature
• Compassion for Animals
• 20 million ha of marginal, often damaged agricultural
land converted to sustainable land-use option.
Note: the 20 million ha is ex-agricultural land, not
degraded conservation land.
• 140 000 sustainable jobs:
• 3x compared to domestic stock operations
• Salaries 3x domestic stock equivalents
• Increased biodiversity, e.g.
• Oxpeckers – previously threatened
• Dung beetle species increase
• Vulture “restaurants”
• Other raptors
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• Wildlife ranching plays a major role in:
• Saving species (white rhino; bontebok; Cape mountain zebra;
black wildebeest; geometric tortoise and a number of other
species, as well as,
• Protecting the rich diversity of vegetation types
• Contributing to increasing landscape connectivity (Cousins, J)
• Green Economy Success
Food Security:
• “Food security” implies physical, social and economic
access by all South Africans, at all times, to sufficient, safe
and nutritious food which meets dietary needs for an active
and healthy life. The following dimensions are relevant:
• adequate availability;
• access to;
• affordability;
• stability;
• use of marginal agricultural land to produce
commodities, e.g. game to generate local and foreign
revenue that can be used for the importation of
essential food commodities.
• The primary causes of species
and habitat loss (in Southern
Africa) are conversion to
cultivated land, followed by urban
sprawl, alien plant invasion and
plantation forestry.
• 74 largest terrestrial herbivore
species on Earth (body mass
>100 kg), are generally facing
dramatic population declines and
range contraction, such that ~
60% are threatened with
extinction.
• Kenya: lost almost 80% of its wild
animals since the ban on hunting
and trade.
Source: Drs Pamela and Peter Oberem
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• In business & management language the combination of investors,
owners, product and capacity, reflects a sound indicator of
sustainability.
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Categories of game
species owned
Investors:
• Trade Name
• Investors well-educated/informed (50% undergraduate or postgraduate degree, 26% diploma, 14% matric)
Higher value species (sable & roan
antelope, disease free buffalo)
30%
Plain game species
25%
Species such as nyala, lechwe, bontebok
40%
Colour or morphological variants
5%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
• Shareholder agreements increased
• From 2009-2013 with 37%
• From 2013 with 18%
OWNERS
• Agricultural Land Classification Scheme
• Similar to shareholders, well-educated with 76% tertiary education
and 20% matric
Method of acquiring game farm
Bought a cattle or crop farm and converted in into game farm
46%
Bought already existing game farm
23%
Bought a cattle or crop farm that was already partially converted to a game farm
9%
Inherited cattle or crop farm and converted it into game farm
6%
Inherited cattle or crop farm that was partially converted into a game farm
8%
Other
8%
• Most popular species ranched are kudu (77%), common impala
(76%), blesbok (62%), waterbuck (60%), blue wildebeest (59%),
eland (59%).
• 30 000 tons of game meat (undeclared) estimated used in
processed meats such as polonies, sausage, etc.
• 120 000 tons of game meat hunted by local hunters annually.
• 20 000 tons of game meat hunted by trophy hunters annually.
• 1 400 tons harvested annually for meat directly
• 150 000 tons (estimated) utilized annually in South Africa
Note: Beef imports for 2015 expected to be > 65 000 tons.
* (Johan Kruger Game Harvesters Association, 2015)
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PRIOR TO FMD OUTBREAK FEBRUARY 2011
• Exported between 600-800 tons of
boneless product to Europe
• Sought after species not sufficiently
available e.g. springbok, kudu and
blesbok
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WRSA GOAL FOR 2015
• To reach 10-12 000 tons (providing R1.5
billion + foreign revenue per annum)
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MAIN CONSTRAINTS
• Fragmented nature of supply chain
• Veterinary Services meeting OIR
requirements for FMD control
• Approved abattoirs (game meat scheme
/ DAFF regulations and approved mobile
abattoirs)
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• Land use option under Game Ranching: 30 million ha (30%
SA’s Agri land)
• 30 million head of game.
• 350 000 decent sustainable employment opportunities.
• 250 000of game meat produced per annum.
• R75 billion per annum contribution to GDP
• WRSA seconds Walt Disney’s notion namely;
• If you can dream it, you can do it!
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THANK YOU
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