Counting came is not as simple as it may appear, so even the arial count can at best be indicative.
Since the areal game count in 08, we have also introduced Nyala and Gemsbok |
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Numbers as per Game Count 30 August 2008 | ||||||||
SPECIES OF ANIMALS | Current No of Animals | Graze Units per Animal | Browse Units per Animal | % of Graze Capacity | % of Browse Capacity | |||
Bulk grazers: | ||||||||
Burchell’s zebra | 18 | 11.88 | 0 | 6.13 | 0.00 | |||
Sub-total: | 18 | 11.88 | 0.00 | 6.13 | 0.00 | |||
Selective grazers: | ||||||||
Blesbok | 51 | 12.75 | 0 | 6.48 | 0.00 | |||
Blue wildebeest | 49 | 26.46 | 0 | 13.60 | 0.00 | |||
Reedbuck (Rhebuck) | 4 | 0.80 | 1.6 | 0.80 | 0.17 | |||
Waterbuck | 10 | 5.00 | 0.7 | 2.56 | 1.00 | |||
Sub-total: | 114 | 45.01 | 2.30 | 23.44 | 1.17 | |||
Mixed feeders: | ||||||||
Impala | 61 | 6.10 | 15.25 | 3.23 | 16.45 | |||
Eland | 21 | 2.31 | 38.64 | 4.67 | 35.58 | |||
Kudu | 36 | 3.60 | 28.8 | 1.80 | 31.19 | |||
Red hartebeest | 12 | 3.36 | 2.16 | 1.71 | 2.32 | |||
Klipspringer | 8 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
Steenbok | 6 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
Bosvark | 8 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Estimated | ||
Warthog | 20 | 0.00 | 0 | 1.02 | 2.58 | Estimated | ||
Porcupine | 12 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Estimated | ||
Aardvark | 3 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Estimated | ||
Sub-total: | 187 | 15.37 | 84.85 | 12.43 | 88.13 | |||
Browsers: | ||||||||
Duiker | 8 | 0.00 | 1.76 | 0.00 | 0.65 | Estimated | ||
Giraffe | 6 | 0.12 | 25.68 | 0.06 | 27.93 | |||
Sub-total: | 14 | 0.12 | 27.44 | 0.06 | 28.58 | |||
Carnivores | ||||||||
Brown Hyena | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
Leopard | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
Rooikat | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
Rooi Jakkals | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
Sub-total: | 2 | |||||||
Total of all Animals: | 333 | 72.38 | 114.59 | 42.06 | 117.87 | |||
Total excl Browsers: | 335 | 72.26 | 87.15 | 42.00 | 89.30 | |||
Excluding Giraffe | 42.00 | 89.30 |