Question NW1445 to the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment

Phillips, Ms C to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment

Noting that the export quota for 2022 has been set at 150 elephants and that, according to the press statement of her department of 25 February 2020, only a very small portion of the overall elephant population is hunted in a year, what (a) are the reason that a hunting quota of 150 elephants has been set, (b) number of elephants were hunted nationally in the (i) 2018, (ii) 2019 and (iii) 2020 calendar years and (c) number of elephants were destroyed nationally as Damage Causing Animals in each of the specified years?