{"id":2118,"date":"2020-08-25T06:42:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2020-08-25T06:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:42:34","slug":"bioblitz-discovering-plant-bird-species-that-call-babanango-game-reserve-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/travel\/bioblitz-discovering-plant-bird-species-that-call-babanango-game-reserve-home\/","title":{"rendered":"BioBlitz \u2013 Discovering Plant & Bird Species That Call Babanango Game Reserve Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Babanango Game Reserve<\/strong> is celebrating the completion of its first BioBlitz – an intense biological survey carried out by a group of scientists, naturalists and volunteers to record all living species within a designated area over a continuous time period.<\/p>\n It’s a significant milestone for this new 22,000ha reserve that’s located in the heart of South Africa’s beautiful northern KwaZulu-Natal, offering the opportunity to enjoy a captivating bush experience and participate in a ground-breaking conservation project that’s benefitting local communities and protecting precious wildlife for future generations.<\/p>\n The BioBlitz was executed in partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal <\/strong>and was carried out by a group of 12 specialists, which included Masters\u2019 and PhD students with varying specialities such as herpetology, botany, ornithology and mammalogy.<\/p>\n The purpose of the BioBlitz was to:<\/strong><\/p>\n During the survey, the team managed to capture and ring a variety of bird species along with a range of rodents that were all released after DNA samples were collected for research purposes<\/p>\n It also provided the Babanango Game Reserve team the chance to share some of their knowledge as they hosted educational sessions around the capturing, tagging and tracking of animals, while surveying the reserve for future ecological studies.<\/p>\n The Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n The results of the BioBlitz were favourable considering the short time period provided to collect insight and information on the local species and have revealed the following:<\/p>\n Based on these results, another BioBlitz will be organised to ensure that all species can be actively recorded during the change of seasons, ensuring a greater understanding of this new protected area.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Babanango Game Reserve is celebrating the completion of its first BioBlitz – an intense biological survey carried out by a group of scientists, naturalists and volunteers to record all living species within a designated area over a continuous time period. It’s a significant milestone for this new 22,000ha reserve Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[216,269,270,271,56,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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