Word: ezemvelo
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...horns on that one," game farmer Richard Horsley says admiringly, pointing to a large male nyala, one of 10 coarse-haired African antelope waiting to go on the block at the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife game auction in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi regional park in northern KwaZulu- Natal. "They've got a nice turn to them and they're spread nice and far, tip to tip. That's a beauty." "Very symmetrical," agrees a friend. I want to show off my animal knowledge, so I break in: "The horns are a good indicator of the animal's health, no?" The men turn...
...with it," says Jeff Gaisford, media manager with Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, which runs some 100 parks in the province and organizes the auction. Some farmers offer tourists game drives and walks, others offer hunting safaris. Some even offer both - though not at the same time. The industry is now worth about $140 million a year, according to the local Northern Game Ranchers' Association. Game animals in southern Africa are traded much the same as any other goods, and the Ezemvelo auction sets the standard for prices every year. Game-park ranchers fly in from as far away as Texas...
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