South Africa Wants to Preserve Its Wild Animals by Eating Them – Bloomberg

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As part of an ambitious biodiversity economy strategy, the country aims to sextuple the size of its game meat industry by 2036. First up: antelope.
Impala in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. 
South Africa has come up with a novel strategy to protect and expand its already abundant wildlife herds: It wants people to eat more of the animals.
The idea may seem distasteful to many. But for the environment department tasked with making South Africa’s natural riches pay their way in the world’s most unequal country, it solves a number of problems: adding to the value of antelope that inhabit vast tracts of marginal or degraded land, increasing the incentive to preserve their habitats, and potentially bringing a revenue stream to many of the country’s poorest communities in remote rural areas.

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