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A top wildlife tourism destination, South Africa produces around 60,000 tonnes of game meat a year — equivalent in weight to roughly 60,000 giraffes.

Left alone, these animals likely wouldn’t have survived. But paired together—and with the help of conservationists—the unlikely friends have a chance to return to the wild.

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.