South Africa, the Hunting Destination in Africa.

South Africa has developed into the most popular hunting destination in Africa. The critical success factors being:

• The highly successful management by the conservation authorities in South Africa of National and Provincial Parks. With approximately 7 million hectares set aside and managed by the authorities, an enormous resource base of wild animals has been produced for distribution throughout the country.
• The above, together with the philosophy of sustainable use of our natural resources, has seen the development of some 9000 privately owned game farms covering 17 million hectares of land.
• The greatest variety of animals available for hunting in any one country in Africa.
• The high degree of professionalism set by the Professional Hunters’ Association of South Africa (PHASA) and sound regulations controlling the professional hunting industry.

Hunting as a form of tourism contributes enormously to the economy of South Africa. Some 70,000 jobs have been created on game farms and directly from professional hunting. During the last hunting season, around 8,000 overseas hunters hunted in South Africa. For the period 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2007, 16,394 overseas hunters hunted in the country for an average of 4 days each. A total of 46,727 animal species were hunted. This amounts to a total revenue from daily rates, animals hunted and taxidermy work of US$ 91,212,875 million (R730 million). Converted @ 8.0

Hunting Seasons:
Trophy hunting is carried out throughout the year, but due to the summer heat and rains, most hunting is conducted between March and October, with June, July and August being the most popular months.

Hunting Areas:
Hunting is available on private game ranches, and in controlled hunting areas in some provincial game reserves. The number of game on private land is an estimated two and a half times more than the game on public land.