Madam Speaker and hon Nyambi, in 2014 the Department of Environmental Affairs embarked on the development of the national biodiversity economy strategy that targeted two sectors namely: wild life and bio prospecting which has to do more with bio trade, specifically for transformation of the wild life sector, without under valuing the impact of the other identified initiatives. The following initiatives were key: the identification and the prioritisation of 10 million hectares for transformation of wild life economy; the establishment and development as well as supporting new wild life ranching entrance through infrastructure support and game donation programmes, the operationalisation of 11 biodiversity economic notes in the nine provinces of South Africa and formalising the South African game market and creating a network of 110 game meat processing facilities which are Black owned.
And lastly capacitating organised community structures such as communal property associations and trusts. The