Who owns SA’s wildlife? Hunting quotas and the quiet rewriting of our biodiversity compact

The Daily Maverick has raised critical questions regarding the ownership of South Africa's wildlife, focusing on the establishment of hunting quotas and recent regulatory changes. The coverage examines whether these policy and regulatory decisions are facilitating the transfer of the nation's shared biodiversity heritage into a private wildlife economy.

The ongoing policy shifts highlight a tension between public conservation trusts and private commercial interests in the management of South Africa's natural resources. Observers are prompted to scrutinize how individual trophy hunting limits and administrative decisions collectively reshape the country's broader biodiversity compact and conservation framework.