Position
A group of landowners formed the Timbavati Association in 1956, having watched crop and cattle farming erode the soil, destroy indigenous plants and reroute the water. Fifty members now hold 534 square kilometres. The fences with Kruger were removed in 1993, and the reserve forms part of the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area.
⚑ It hunts, and the Library says so
This is the entry where the group stops being comfortable. Timbavati retains a hunting quota. More than 95 per cent of it is culling — around a thousand impala a year, to reduce grazing pressure, informed by annual vegetation assessment. A small portion of Greater Kruger landowners permit trophy hunting on non-tourism properties **to fund anti-poaching and conservation costs**, under quotas approved by Kruger and enforced by the reserve. Sabi Sand, forty kilometres away and in the same landscape, does not hunt at all. Two answers to the same question, both defended by their holders, and §18.5 requires the Library to state the difference rather than pick the flattering one.
Candour
Areas, membership and quota figures come from the reserve and from conservation press. Whether trophy hunting funds conservation or corrupts it is a live argument in which the Library takes no side; what it records is that Timbavati says the revenue pays for rangers, and that its neighbour reached the opposite conclusion on the same ground.
Holdings
What the register records this entity as holding, and in what capacity.