AGRICULTURE NEWS - The closing of countries’ borders in an attempt to contain the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is already greatly affecting the local ecotourism sector.
This was according to Wiaan van der Linde, deputy president of Wildlife Ranching South Africa (WRSA), who said that the four pillars of the country’s wildlife value chain, namely hunting, breeding, ecotourism and game products, had all been affected by COVID-19.
He said the disease had had an “extremely negative impact” on WRSA’s members’ businesses, especially the tourism and hunting markets, which were experiencing a “huge decline”.
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