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Community Development, Kavango Zambezi TFCA, Rewilding, Simalaha Community Conservancy

Zebra Return To The Simalaha Floodplains

It has been decades since there were zebra on the Simalaha floodplains. September 24, 2014 was a key day for Simalaha when 50 zebra were captured in the Salambala Conservancy in the Zambezi Region of Namibia and transported to the Simalaha Community Conservancy in Western Zambia.

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Community Development, Kavango Zambezi TFCA, Rewilding, Simalaha Community Conservancy

First Wildlife Translocation To Simahala Community Conservancy

Sunday, 6 October 2013 saw the first ever wildlife translocation to the Simalaha Community Conservancy. Simalaha is one of Zambia’s first conservancies and will be an important area in KAZA TFCA to re-establish...

Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve, Rewilding

Maputo Special Reserve 2013 Translocation

The Mozambican government's translocation programme, a multi-year endeavour now in its third year of operation, recently saw the introduction of 78 wildebeest to Maputo Special Reserve. The plan is to restock the reserve...

!Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park, Kgalagadi TFP, Rewilding

Translocation of game to the ‡Khomani San’s Erin game farm

As part of the 2002 land settlement agreement reached between the ‡Khomani San and Mier communities, the government of South Africa and South African National Parks (SANParks), it had been agreed that the...

Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve, Rewilding

Second translocation to Maputo Special Reserve

On Friday, 5 August 2011, 24 zebras from Ithala Game Reserve in South Africa, were successfully introduced to Maputo Special Reserve in Mozambique. The operation ended at about 7.00 pm.

Great Limpopo TFCA, Rewilding

Wild dogs kept at bay by invisible boundary

A novel experiment to protect endangered wild dogs is using the scent marks of unrelated wild dogs and hundreds of their scats to keep them within the safety of their new home in...

Greater Mapungubwe TFCA, Rewilding

Endangered African wild dogs found a safe haven

South Africa and Botswana collaborate on translocation A pack of 18 African wild dogs, donated by South African National Parks, was last week translocated from Marakele National Park in Limpopo Province to the...

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