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This translocation will introduce 100 wild animals, including 80 impalas, 10 kudus, and 10 zebras, to boost the MCC's wildlife populations and improve the ecological balance within the conservancy. The translocation process adheres to strict animal welfare protocols, ensuring veterinary health assessments, climate-controlled transport, and acclimatisation enclosures that replicate natural habitats.

ZImParks Senior Regional Manager, Midwell Kapesa, emphasised the importance of this partnership: 

Community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) has proven effective in Zimbabwe, empowering local communities to govern their natural resources sustainably. By restocking wildlife populations in Mucheni, this initiative supports the SWM Programme’s overarching goal of promoting coexistence between people and wildlife through the community conservancies model.

The SWM Programme and its partners will continue to monitor the translocated animals and provide training to the Mucheni Community Conservancy Board and community resource monitors on sustainable wildlife utilisation. 

About the Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme

The SWM Programme is a major international initiative that aims to improve the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife in forest, savannah and wetland ecosystems. It is being funded by the with co-funding from (FFEM) and the (AFD). It is one of the largest European Union-funded biodiversity programmes and contributes to the European Global Gateway and NatureAfrica. Projects are being piloted and tested with governments and communities in 15 participating countries. The initiative is coordinated by a dynamic consortium of four partners, namely theof the United Nations (FAO), the (CIFOR-ICRAF), the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (ÌÇÐÄVlog) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).