2023-04-16 12:59:59
EIt is six o’clock in the morning, the sun is slowly climbing over the hills of the golden savannah, and the first birds are singing. On the “Klawerberg” farm in Namibia, on the other hand, there can no longer be any question of morning calm. Medicines and vitamin preparations are sorted here early in the morning, arrows for the tranquilizer gun are prepared and the helicopter is started. For the Wildlife Vets Namibia, the morning begins as usual. Many wildlife doctors like her, the best known here in southern Africa, have dedicated themselves to a now flourishing wildlife industry. On Klawerberg they have the task of selecting a few antelopes of various species from the helicopter, stunning them, then measuring them from the ground, vaccinating them, providing them with identification tags and sometimes relocating them to new breeding camps.
This morning, Ulf Tubbesing and Mariska Bijsterbosch are helping the farm owners to prepare selected bulls for an auction. There, the game farmer Charl du Toit, who maintains the “Silent Valley breed” in South Africa, and his local manager Willie Pienaar want to take with them, among other things, four sable antelopes, three elande, three kudus, four roan antelopes, two oryx, two white-tailed , two striped and two golden wildebeests. They will be auctioned off in a few weeks. Such auctions are a central part of commercial game farming in southern Africa. They enable profit-oriented game care and breeding, which at the same time preserves native game species and enables farmers to earn an income based on native nature.
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