Thanks a lot Victor for your willingness to share your knowledge of a place, I'm sure, most of us would like to experience.

Two questions if you don't mind

you said the animals in South Africa are privately owned--Is that by individual ranchers? if so, are those ranches self contained or are the animals free to roam wherever? how big are these areas? (if they are independant of each other) Is there a standard price on a particular species or does it also depend on the area?

would you catagorize the overall hunting in Africa---better, worse, or the same over the last many years?

Are there any marked increases or decreases in any particularly notable species. It seems like I see more elepaht hunts in recent years on those safari tv programs, but perhaps not. I know when I was a pup, I subscribed to magazines about safari hunting and the elephants in those pictures (as I remember) seemd to have much bigger tusks that the ones I see today---maybe that's cause I'm bigger

Sorry that was more than two questions

thanks again
hb