![]() ![]() To fix this and restore the balance that comes with a vital scavenging role is exactly what Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC) and Peace Parks have set out to do, beginning with a wild road-trip. This includes spotted hyena, previously eradicated in the park but for a small leftover population. Re-building this rhythm at scale is a highly sensitive, strategic process since every living thing has its place and dependencies within the system. For a time, wildlife seriously suffered across Mozambique’s protected areas and, as a result, so did ‘functionality’ – how well the environment was able to work, by and for itself. Not to oversell the underdogs, this represents another great, if unsuspecting, rewilding win for southern Africa never underestimate what a hyena can bring to the party.Īt this point, the park has very little scavenger pay-back to cash in on, largely due to natural tipping points passed in the past. But no species exists in isolation survival hinges on the interplay between each species, however repellent or disposable some of them may seem.Īspiring to this bigger picture, Maputo National Park in Mozambique is topping up its lowly – but high-net-worth – scavenger quota, beginning this month with five spotted hyena incoming from Sabie Game Park, situated on the eastern border of Kruger National Park. African ProverbĪpex predators have serious status the lion lies in first place in the mighty hierarchy of Africa’s food chain – a fair call given their magnificence, and top-down significance. ![]() Without impalas and hyenas, the lion cannot be the king of the jungle.
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