What you’re witnessing here is science-led conservation practice. Satellite technology in the form of a collar, being put to use to protect and conserve one of Africa’s Big 5, the African buffalo.
Once buffalo are collared, these devices allows real-time tracking of the animals through the radio receiver that sits within the collar. It can provide data on the location, behaviour and movement patterns of the buffalo. This can show up the size of the buffalo’s home range, map its migration routes and enable more strategic anti-poaching efforts to be put in place as well as reducing conflict between humans and wildlife.
So far, 199 buffalo have been translocated into Maputo Special Reserve through the Peace Parks Foundation rewilding programme.
