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In Kuzikus, about 3000 heads of wildlife freely roam the area. Only with your help, we can estimate the population of large ungulates in Kuzikus, crucial for wilflife management of the reserve. Game is managed through life catching and translocation. Distance sampling is a useful method to obtain a reliable density estimate of wild populations. We walk 44 transect lines of 1 km throughout the reserve in order to count all animals we see. Road detections are used to count animals in herds and those that are less often seen. These results are indexed. Walking through the field and you will gain deep insights into the wild. Because so much time is spend in the field, you are certain to see many things that normally remain undetected.

The aim of this project is to get an reliable estimate of large mammals populations in Kuzikus reserve. Apart from an exceptional wildlife experience you will learn

- to employ the distance sampling technique in the field,
- to identify 13 ungulate species, distinguish age and sex,
- about animal behaviour of large African herbivores,
- to use the distance sampling software programme to analysis data collected in the field