Buyelwa Sonjica, South Africa's environmental affairs minister, told parliament this week: "Some progress has been conducted toward processes for offsetting the footprint."

Micaela Navarro, the Andalusia region's social affairs minister, said the father of the baby is also a minor, and both the mother and the baby were in good health.

But Buyelwa Sonjica, the environmental affairs minister, recently announced the formation of a special investigations team to tackle poaching.