Madam Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes the valuable role played by the Associates Private Nature Reserves (APNR) adjacent to the Kruger National Park (KNP) in increasing land for conservation purposes;
2) recognises that the APNR and the KNP jointly represent one of the last conservation areas in Africa where large tusk bull elephants can still be found;
3) further recognises the role being played by these bull elephants as mentors to younger elephants and that these bulls with large tusks are of significant intrinsic value to visitors to the KNP;
4) acknowledges the valuable role that hunting plays in raising income for conservation in the APNR and that these hunting practices are guided by a hunting protocol endorsed by SANParks and the Department of Environmental Affairs;
5) urges SANParks and the Department of Environmental Affairs to take great care when these hunting protocols are changed to target specific new categories that are not covered in the original protocol; and
6) calls on SANParks and the Department of Environmental Affairs to disallow the hunting of the large tusk older bull elephants, unless it can be motivated on scientific and environmental grounds.
Agreed to.