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Feasibility of white rhino ranching

How feasible is it to breed with rhinos? Ms. Catharine Hall, an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Pretoria, took an in-depth look at the feasibility of White rhino ranching, as part of her final year dissertation. 
  
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Meer gesonde buffels op plase

Meer gesonde buffels op plaseVan die sowat 27 000 siektevrye buffels in Suid-Afrika is net 5 000 in provinsiale en nasionale parke. Die ander 22 000 is almal in private besit en versprei oor 2 400 Wildbedryf SAgeregistreerde plase regoor die land. Die meeste van hierdie buffels, sowat 12 500, loop op plase in Limpopo, terwyl Noordwes 3 250 het, die Vrystaat 2 750, die Noord-Kaap 2 500, Mpumalanga 1 750, KwaZulu-Natal 1 000 en Gauteng 750.

Die aantal buffels in teelgroepe wat op veilings verkoop is, het sedert 2005 toegeneem van sowat 50 per jaar tot nagenoeg 182 verlede jaar. Die aantal manlike diere het ook toegeneem van sowat 10 in 2004 en 2005 tot 80 verlede jaar.

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Game for food security

Game for food securityby Dr Peter Oberem, managing director, Afrivet, and WRSA director of regulatory affairs.

Food security has become a priority at the United Nations, the African Union, in Nepad (New Partnership for Africa’s Development) and for the South African government. Why?

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Dr Louis Greeff oor wurms

Tydens die inligtingsdae wat gedurende Oktober en November by Thabazimbi en Ellisras gehou was, het dr Louis Greeff 'n baie insiggewende voordrag oor wurms gedoen. Bywoners het sy aanbieding waardevol gevind en gevra dat sy volledige voorlegging beskikbaar gemaak moet word. Klik hier vir dr Greeff se aanbieding oor wurms.

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Wildlife ranching in perspective

Wildlife ranching in perspectiveCommercial wildlife ranching’s contribution to a resource efficient, low carbon, pro-employment green economy is possibly hugely underestimated and definitely underdeveloped.

For the purpose of this article, commercial wildlife ranching is defined as the management of game in a sizable game fenced system, with minimal human intervention in the form of the provision of water, the supplementation of food during periods of drought, the strategic control of parasites, and the strategic provision of health care. The strategic provision of parasite control and health care is aimed at assisting only where necessary, thus avoiding the loss of natural parasite resistance and enzootic stability to diseases.

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Dit brand

Dit brandDie 88 duisend hektaar wat laat verlede jaar van Thabazimbi tot in Vaalwater afgebrand het, het ons weer bewus gemaak van die geweldige ekonomiese maar beslis ook emosionele skade wat dit tot gevolg gehad het. Ons simpatie lê by al die boere wat soveel skade gely het. Ons storie is maar ’n druppel in ’n groot emmer.

Ons was in Kaapstad vir besigheid toe die nuus van die brande in die media losbars met opskrifte van die jong boer wat oorlede is in die Vrystaat en beelde van vlamme in Limpopo. Ons probeer toe uitvind of ons plaas, wat net buite Vaalwater geleë is, in gevaar is omdat die berig verder gesê het die brand het ‘omgedraai’ en was op pad terug Vaalwater toe.

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Tracking down your herds

Tracking down your herdsCollars and other tracking units have played an invaluable role to help understand the ecology of wildlife. For some, however, navigating around some of the terms and systems is a daunting task. This article hopes to shed more light on wildlife telemetry applications.

In recent years, wildlife ranching has become much more sophisticated, based on sound scientific and economic practices. Gone are the fears that collars negatively affect the hunting capabilities of predators and the normal activity of other wildlife in terms of feeding or breeding, provided the correct collars are fitted to the appropriate species in the correct manner.

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