Assegaai Alexandria Conservancy

16/12/2021

This Cape Aloe is one of the wonderful species we have on our conservancy. Its medicinal properties make it a truly unique plant, indigenous to the Eastern Cape and Assegai conservancy.

29/11/2021

Atleast 450 snares removed for 2021.

300 plus SNARES removed by game guards in 7months. 400 plus in TOTAL for 2017 so far!

17/11/2021

Assegai conservancy consciously serves by safeguarding the local flora and fauna within the local community, allowing species to fund their own right to be conserved.

10/11/2021

During the course of each year, a new veldprice list is created and updated by members. This price list acts as a guideline for the upcoming year and includes the availability of special permits. Our veldprice list for 2022 is definitely worth looking at!

27/10/2021

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2021 Annual General Meeting. We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new members. Your inputs and efforts are greatly valued.

18/10/2021

As a community we believe in "OF the community FOR the community" and so too our management plan is governed consciously by our members, individually and as a community.

12/10/2021

Threatened Or Protected Species (TOPS) permits are necessary for the provision of regulations that carry out a specific restricted activity, such as hunting and the methods thereof.

TOPS, however, is controversial and blamed for over-regulating that causes 'love to death' consequences. This causes individuals to be wary of keeping protected species as they are not utilised and therefore cannot fund themselves.

This being said, any persons acting against this may be subject to a penalty such as a fine or imprisonment, or both.

04/10/2021

Conservancies, through the Department of Environmental Affairs, act as wildlife custodians across different agricultural properties. A constitution and management plan is approved and yearly take-off numbers are approved at the start of the year. This is based on sightings and game counts by experienced individuals and trained game guards.

28/09/2021

Hunting is determined by season, and the yearly hunting proclamation regulates which species may be hunted, how many, including where and how they may be hunted.

Game ranchers are authorised to keep and manage their game throughout the year with a Certificate of Adequate Enclosure (CAE), permitted by the Game Theft Act of 1991, whereas livestock farms are limited to the season and proclamation.