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Project Rewild Zambezi | Great Plains Foundation

Great Plains Conservation
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There is a place in Africa where the piles of bones are soon to be replaced with living wildlife! There has been a steady recovery of wildlife numbers since we started working in Zimbabwe's SAPI Reserve five years ago. The influx of animals from concessions all around, and Mana Pools itself, has been encouraging. Lions have arrived, leopards settled down, buffalo, elephant, eland and zebras have been stable and even increasing in the region. Then we got a call… In a whirlwind of discussions, negotiations, stakeholder consultancies, government discussions and endorsement, we have very quickly moved to agreement and permissions for our next large project at Great Plains. The relocation project begins in June this year and will run for two years. There will be consistent assessments on the impact on resident populations, adapting rates of new releases, the impacts on vegetation, migration, and the effects of human interactions. We aim to de …...more
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Project Rewild Zambezi | Great Plains Foundation
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2022Jun 7
There is a place in Africa where the piles of bones are soon to be replaced with living wildlife! There has been a steady recovery of wildlife numbers since we started working in Zimbabwe's SAPI Reserve five years ago. The influx of animals from concessions all around, and Mana Pools itself, has been encouraging. Lions have arrived, leopards settled down, buffalo, elephant, eland and zebras have been stable and even increasing in the region. Then we got a call… In a whirlwind of discussions, negotiations, stakeholder consultancies, government discussions and endorsement, we have very quickly moved to agreement and permissions for our next large project at Great Plains. The relocation project begins in June this year and will run for two years. There will be consistent assessments on the impact on resident populations, adapting rates of new releases, the impacts on vegetation, migration, and the effects of human interactions. We aim to develop a blueprint for the best, stress-free mass move of wildlife across multiple species for future relocations across Africa. As usual, in Great Plains, this will be on a copyleft basis (where we share everything), not a copyright one. Great Plains would like this to become an industry-wide effort, an example of where anyone and everyone can help and own it alongside us. Project ReWild Zambezi is an excellent example of what we can do collectively. Please take a look at our video and short brochure on the project and let us know if you have any ideas for us to fund this or make it even better. For more information - https://greatplainsfoundation.com/pro...

Great Plains Conservation

6.12K subscribers