Records tumble at Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees game auction

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

New national and provincial record prices for game were set at the annual Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees auction on Friday.

A provincial record of 975-thousand rand was paid for a two to four year-old buffalo cow from the Addo Elephant National Park.

This was shortly after a record of 650-thousand rand was set for a cow aged between eight and ten years.

The 30 disease-free Addo buffalo on auction raised close to 9 million rand.

John Adendorff, acting manager of the Addo Elephant National Park, said the park was very pleased with the prices realised at the auction.

The funds raised will be invested back into conservation.

A national record of 7.8 million rand was set for a rare blesbok ram called “Top Deck”, which was sold to Gamevest, based in Thabazimbi.

Another national record was 400-thousand rand for a yellow blesbok ram.

The auction of 140 lots of prime game realised 26.5 million rand, the biggest total ever for the 13-year-old auction, according to convener Johan Swart.