The Wildlife Animal Protection Forum of South Africa (WAPFSA) wishes to express our full support for the current Private Members Presentation Bill introduced by the Honourable Minister of Parliament David Reed.
The Wildlife Animal Protection Forum of South Africa (WAPFSA) is a national network of thirty South African organizations established in 2017 and which was explicitly designed as a vehicle to engage with government on wildlife issues and to put wild animals onto the political agenda, based on ethical and compassionate conservation and harmonious co-existence within nature.
Our members share clearly articulated principles that are part of our Founding Document. Our common goal is to safeguard and protect wild animals and their welfare and well-being, as well as biodiversity, individual species, individual animals and the interests of vulnerable people.
All our activities are underpinned by an understanding that the inter-relationship between environmental protection, animal well-being, conservation and the values of dignity, compassion and humaneness are foundational to our constitutional democracy, a position which has been recognized in South African jurisprudence We also advocate for the concepts of
UBUNTU, the intrinsic value of wild animals and an integrative policy approach, which requires the adoption of an attitude of respect to the individuals that make up a species, an eco-system or the components of biodiversity. Key to WAPFSA’s activities is the understanding that there is an urgent need to reimagine human-animal relations and that animal welfare and climate change are intertwined.
The undersigned organizations and community representatives, who are widely supported by wildlife conservationists across the African continent and beyond, would like to take this opportunity to share with you, our African perspective on the negative impacts of the commercialization, advertisement and sale of trophy hunts of African endangered and protected species.
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