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Environmental Shepherds
(=Khoadi //Hoas)
Poaching & Stock Theft
To control a threat to wildlife & livestock farming
&
gauge general community support for the efforts
of the Conservancy
Community Meetings
To provide information to Conservancy, Agric.
Union & Agric. Association Committees
&
inform ordinary Conservancy & Agric Union
members & Visitors about policies and activities
Rainfall, Fire & Floods
To track environmental ‘impacts’ that influence the natural resources
so that changes can be explained and management can be adapted
RAINFALL
RAIN-GAUGE NUMBER:
Year :
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
August September October November December
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Day Rainfall
Committee meetings
Community liaison meetings
Fires
Flooding
STOCK-THEFT
POACHING
Problem Animals
Veld monitoring
To track problem animal incidents over time
&
measure the effort that goes into reducing
conflict with problem animals
To track seasonal and long-term changes in the
veld so as to understand the impacts of grazing,
wood collection and droughts and to predict
food shortages for livestock and wildlife
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DAMAGE REPORT
Elephant/rhino monitoring
PROBLEM ANIMAL LOG
Damage to crops
NAME:
Damage to water
Date
Village
Species
Number
Extent of loss
Type of
loss
ha
Reaction
Prevention
number
(kraal/fence)
Num Killed
Problem animal
Yes/No
To track these rare animals as they have high
value and management can be applied on the
basis of an individual animal or herd
Complainant
Complainant's
signature
Attacks on humans
Damage to livestock
;
Predators
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Management
• Game introduction & harvesting
• Maintain water points
• Fence maintenance
• Fire breaks & firefighting
• Manage trophy hunter
• Road maintenance
Community Shepherds are the natural
resource management arm of the Community.
In addition to monitoring, they also perform
functions to maintain and improve common
property resources.
PREDATOR LOG
NAME:
Obs Type
0
Date
Spoor
Environmental Shepherds
Observed
0
To estimate predator
populations at any given time
&
get trends on how these
species are performing over
time
Grid Cell/ GPS
Species Number
east
south
Notes (sex age structure, etc) Reported to…
Wildlife patrols
To get trends on various wildlife species to
see how they are performing over time
Livestock Monitoring
To track livestock condition,
numbers of livestock and movement
of herds in the area
Mortalities
To track mortalities to alert the Committees if
there is a sudden rise in mortalities.
&
Importantly to determine the cause of
mortalities be this poaching, disease, etc
MORTALITY LOG
NAME:
Unknow n
Natural
south
Predator
east
Poach
Species
> w eek
Date
Carcass age Cause of Death
< w eek
Grid Cell
Notes
Reported to…
Fixed-Route
Vehicle Counts
To get:
1. population estimates for quota
setting & carrying capacity
2. trends of wildlife species to see how
they are performing over time
3. a map of where the important
wildlife areas are
WILDLIFE PATROLS
OBSERVERS
MONTH
ROUTE:
PATROL DAYS
To provide
GFU support
where required
Grid Cell/ GPS
DATE
Species
Notes (sex age structure, etc)
Number
east
south