AGRICULTURAL NEWS - The 12 000ha community-owned Somkhanda Game Reserve (Somkhanda) in northern Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal recently started generating much-needed additional income through the commercial sale of meat harvested from its game populations.
A statement issued by Wildlands, the non-governmental conservation programme that co-manages the Big 5 game reserve with the Gumbi community, explained that Somkhanda had been hard-hit by the ban on safari tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Until recently, the only other source of income that Somkhanda had was game ranching and tourism to support over 200 families in the areas surrounding the game reserve.
