BACK TO AFRICA
BACK TO AFRICA
BACK TO AFRICA
BACK TO AFRICA
BACK TO AFRICA
BACK TO AFRICA
OUR MISSION
Back to Africa is a non-profit organisation dedicated to giving back to African wildlife what it has lost. This is achieved through supporting innovative wildlife restoration projects.
RECENT NEWS: HLUHLUWE - IMFOLOZI GAME RESERVE, SOUTH AFRICA - RHINO DEHORNING
Back to Africa Directors Dr Joel Alves & Dr Ben Muller were extremely fortunate to be invited to assist the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife team with the landmark dehorning of their white and black rhino populations in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve. Following unprecedented poaching losses and an unwavering tide of poaching pressure on the reserve, one of the strongholds of the critically endangered black rhino, it became apparent that dehorning was the only feasible next step to take in an effort to stem the loss of rhino.
The scale of the project was enormous, involving multiple veterinary and ground teams, two Robinson 44 helicopters and an AS350 B3 helicopter. The funding of the operation and support of EKZN Wildlife was made possible by WWF as well as veterinary support through African Wildlife Vets.
RECENT NEWS: IONA NP, ANGOLA - WILDLIFE COLLARING
Back to Africa director, Dr Joel Alves, travelled to Iona NP in Angola for a large-scale collaring project supported by Wild Wonderful World. Iona NP is a unique and phenomenal landscape recently brought under the management of African Parks.
In line with conservation goals and with the idea of better understanding the utilisation of the vast desert landscape by priority species, the focus was to collar springbuck, oryx and Hartmanns mountain zebra. The hope was to locate and collar brown hyena and cheetah opportunistically but unfortunately none were seen during the operation.
