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1 online resource |
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION TO GAME FARM TOURISM -- Contents -- Introduction -- History of game farms -- Stage 1: 1652 until the end of the 19th century -- Stage 2: Post-Anglo-Boer War until 1960 -- Stage 3: 1960 up to the present -- The rising importance of game farm tourism -- Defining concepts -- Hunting as tourism product -- Four pillars of game farm tourism -- Breeding game (rare/endangered species) -- Hunting -- Game farms/reserves as ecotourism attractions -- Game products -- Value chain for hunting -- Impact of hunting tourism -- Economic -- Ecological -- Socio-cultural |
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Positive impacts and advantages of hunting tourism -- Hunting tourism benefits conservation -- Hunting tourism has a positive impact on nature -- Hunting tourism creates job opportunities -- Hunting tourism offers entrepreneurial opportunities -- Hunting tourism develops infrastructure -- Hunting tourism generates foreign currency -- Hunting tourism has a multiplying effect -- Hunting tourism stimulates other trades -- Hunting tourism broadens education -- Hunting tourism reinforces preservation of heritage and traditions -- Hunting tourism enhances an appreciation of cultural traditions |
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Hunting tourism may lead to visual and structural changes -- Negative impacts and disadvantages of hunting tourism -- Leakages -- Alcohol misuse by hunting tourists -- Seasonality of hunting tourism -- Unethical practices in hunting tourism -- Biodiversity -- Increase in hunting prices -- Increase in land value -- Hunting tourism impacts on animal behaviour -- Impacts involving direct killing or injury of animals -- Economic impact of hunting -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. GAME FARM PLANNING -- From a Tourism Perspective -- Contents -- Introduction -- The four pillars of the game farm industry |
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Breeding game -- Hunting -- Game farms/reserves as ecotourism attractions -- Game products -- Acquisition of an existing game farm or conversion of a commercial farm into a game farm -- The conversion from stock farm to game farm -- Buying an already existing game farm -- Size and shape of the farm -- Biomes of South Africa -- Location -- Infrastructure -- Roads -- Water -- Game -- Carrying capacity and environmental sensitivity -- Disease control regions -- Expansion possibilities -- Aesthetics -- General aspects -- Planning a game farm -- Spatial development and environmental legislation |
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Environmental legislation -- Application procedure -- Game fences -- Non-electric fences -- Electric game fences -- Water -- Components -- Water needs of game -- Drinking regularity -- The ecological influence of game on the utilisation of water points on a game farm -- The influence of tourists on water points -- Behaviour at water points as a result of predators -- The design and location of water points -- Building earth dams -- Water points and the control of grazing lands, diseases and parasites -- Roads -- Tourist roads -- Fire belts (firebreaks or fire paths) -- Hunting roads |
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Wildlife management -- Africa, Southern
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Game farms -- South Africa -- Management
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Game reserves -- South Africa.
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Game laws -- South Africa
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Hunting -- South Africa
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Tourism -- South Africa
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SPORTS & RECREATION / Hunting
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Game farms -- Management
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Game laws
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Game reserves
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Hunting
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Tourism
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Wildlife management
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Southern Africa
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South Africa
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
099223591X |
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9780992235918 |
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