(1) What amount of funding have the (a) Department of Environmental Affairs and (b) SA National Biodiversity Institute (Sanbi) provide to the SA Bird Ringing Unit (Safring) at the University of Cape Town for the purposes of bird ringing (i) in the (aa) 2008-09, (bb) 2009-10, (cc) 2010-11 and (ii) for the 2011-12 financial years; (2) whether the Department of Environmental Affairs has made a decision to cease funding Safring; if not, what are the relevant details; if so, why; (3) whether the decision and explanation have been given to Safring; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (4) whether the Department of Environmental Affairs will reconsider its decision to cease funding Safring; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?