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We have been very busy at the Mapesu Research Programme the last few months. We have released many animals onto the reserve as part of our goal of rewilding the area and creating an area renown for saving species from extinction. We have also renovated the volunteer house and made
“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants” David Attenborough. Mapesu’s aim is to create a game reserve rich in biodiversity and also to conserve
Panthera, the global organisation dedicated to conserving wild cats, and Mapesu has joined up. We now have a partnership where we conduct their annual leopard survey on our property and neighbours. Leopards are listed as vulnerable according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) list of threatened species
