Statistics

• South Africa is Africa's biggest trader in wild animals. With 80% of Africa's trophy exports coming from South Africa.
• Conservatively, 17 animals are killed every second in South Africa.
  Slaughterhouses, which are mostly all privatized, are largely evaluated by their own personnel.
• Globally, the number of land-based animal slaugtered for food is 59 billion, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. This conservative figure does not account for non-slaughter deaths, under-reporting by smaller countries, and many billions of aquatic animals.
• The South African government is deeply committed at all levels to a policy that is entirely wedded to commercialisation and privatisation of wildlife.
  Over 500 000 wild animals are exported per annum from South Africa, and 80% of all hunting trophies from the continent come from South Africa.
• Evidence suggests that South African nature conservation policies and practices are largely either non-existent, not working, outdated, in disarray, and generally unthethical.
  Wildlife smuggling is second only to drug trafficking and has overtaken illegal gun smuggling.