Flight to Bulawayo, trip to Mazunga entrance, meet orphan rhino from poaching and drive on to Fimbiri hilltop camp - A Short Safari Adventure Among Africa's Thorny Bushveld Wildlife - page 217

adaptive management was the best policy going forward. According to Ron Thomson the plans
for Kruger was to divide the Park into six zones with two biological botanically areas in the
north and south where elephants would either be reduced to a minimum to protect vegetation
and then two areas in the central part elephants would be allowed to flourish at about the rate
of 7% per year (a doubling of the population over 10 years) until the habitat was severely
damaged and then cull them down to the lower limit.
White Rhino at sunset.
Kruger Kudu
The likelihood would be that in the low elephant areas grazers such as rhino, zebra,
wildebeest, and buffalo would increase but increasing numbers of browsers such as impala,
kudu, eland, and bushbuck would also likely drive the model in the other direction as the latter
flourished. This experimental plan however has not been implemented.
Clearly, Transfrontier Parks allow for expansion of elephants herds into areas where the
population have been decimated by civil war, such as in Angola and Mozambique. The
problem however is this may bring expansion of poaching. This has already occurred with the
Kruger Park- Limpopo-Gorongorosa Park as Mozambiqueans increasingly poaching elephants
and rhinos. As a result, the South African government is planning to reverse the earlier opening