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SPOTTED HYENA COLLARING OPERATION ODZALA
Dr Ben Muller was recently requested to capture and collar spotted hyenas in the Odzala-Kokoa National Park in the Republic of Congo, on behalf of Back to Africa NPO.
The operation was a success and the conservation team managed to collar and collect data from 4 individuals, 2 males and 2 females. We managed to free-dart one individual and the rest were successfully caught in cage traps. This is the first collaring operation performed on these enigmatic, forest adapted animals.
DR TAWAB INTERNSHIP
During August 2024, Dr Abdoul Tawab Motorou, joined Wildscapes Vets for a one month conservation medicine internship.
Tawab is a Beninese veterinarian who qualified from the Inter-State School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, in Dakar, Senegal. We have worked with Dr Tawab on certain projects in Benin, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire historically.
FITTING SATELLITE EAR TAGS IN ANGOLA & MALAWI
In September and October 2024, Dr’s Ben Muller and Joel Alves, in separate operations, fitted six satellite tracking ear tags to various species as an ongoing project of testing new satellite tracking devices in different landscapes and different species.
These tags were generously funded by our donors, Morna Retreats.
BUY A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART AND HELP SAVE WILD LIFE
Phoebe Parsons an emerging artist from Australia currently studying in Amsterdam has just won the has just won the “Best Newcomer in the African Wild Life Artist of the year 2024” in the Fine Art Gallery Swakopmund Namibia. See her bio on The Personalities of Back To Africa
Her presentation was that of a beautiful bronze of a Temmincks Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii). Pangolins and pangolin products are the most traded species on the African continent and are listed as Vulnerable of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Phoebe is passionate about Africa and its wild life and has generously donated this beautiful piece of art for Back to Africa to use for fundraising.
HLUHLUWE - IMFOLOZI GAME RESERVE, SOUTH AFRICA - RHINO DEHORNING - APRIL/MAY 2024
Back to Africa Directors Dr Joel Alves & Dr Ben Muller were extremely fortunate to be invited to assist the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife team with the landmark dehorning of their white and black rhino populations in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve. Following unprecedented poaching losses and an unwavering tide of poaching pressure on the reserve, one of the strongholds of the critically endangered black rhino, it became apparent that dehorning was the only feasible next step to take in an effort to stem the loss of rhino.
IONA NP, ANGOLA - WILDLIFE COLLARING - OCTOBER 2023
Back to Africa director, Dr Joel Alves, travelled to Iona NP in Angola for a large-scale collaring project supported by Wild Wonderful World. Iona NP is a unique and phenomenal landscape recently brought under the management of African Parks. In line with conservation goals and with the idea of better understanding the utilisation of the vast desert landscape by priority species, the focus was to collar springbuck, oryx and Hartmanns mountain zebra.
BALULE PREDATOR HOLDING FACILITY - MAY 2024
As result of a generous donation from Conservation Beyond Borders built a predator boma in Balule Game reserve in Limpopo province South Africa.
This has recently been put to good use containing a wandering pack of wild dogs that were escaping into neighbouring farms. After settling in the boma they were released into the reserve which is open to the Greater Kruger National Park. Conservation in action saving endangered species.
Thank you Dr Nicole Benjamin Fink from Conservation Beyond Borders!
LEOPARD REMOVED FROM ANTELOPE CAMP JULY 2023
Predation is one of the greatest challenges with antelope reintroductions.Ideally in healthy ecosystems all living things live in harmony in a sustainable fashion. We call this biodiversity. Sadly when conserving rare and endangered antelope we sometimes have to interfere with this healthy balance...
BACK TO AFRICA KENYA
VISIT NOVEMBER 2022
Back To Africa director Hamish Currie attended a meeting in Nanyuki with the RCFP Expert Advisory Committee for the Mountain Bongo Reintroduction and Recovery Programme for the Ragati and Chehe Forests, Mt. Kenya. Back to Africa is involved in an advisory capacity with the recovery of mountain Bongo in these forests.
BACK TO AFRICA ESWATINI
VISIT JUNE 2022
Back to Africa director Hamish Currie visits roan breeding project in EswatiniThe last wild roan died in a snare in Swaziland in 1961.
Back to Africa imported roan antelope to the then Swaziland from Marwell Zoological Park in the UK and from Zoo Dvur Kralove in the Czech Republic and there are now 50 animals in the Mlilwane
reserve in the Ezulwini Valley in Eswatini.
2022 - APPOINTMENT OF NEW DIRECTORS
We are pleased to announce the appointment of our two new directors Dr’s Joel Alves and Ben Muller. Both are wild life veterinarians resident in Hoedspruit Limpopo province South Africa. They have both worked in a variety of African countries including Mozambique, Nigeria and Senegal. Our previous directors Dr’s Peter Morkel and Michael Knight will stay on as senior advisors
2019 BACK TO AFRICA DIRECTOR PETER MORKEL TRANSPORTS ZOO RHINOS TO RWANDA
Back to Africa director Peter Morkel transports zoo rhinos to Rwanda