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  • 13 - African Buffalo Production Systems

  • from Part IV - Management
  • Edited by Alexandre Caron, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), France, Daniel Cornélis, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) and Foundation François Sommer, France, Philippe Chardonnet, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) SSC Antelope Specialist Group, Herbert H. T. Prins, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Ecology and Management of the African Buffalo
    Published online:
    09 November 2023
    Print publication:
    23 November 2023, pp 355-381
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  • Summary

    Prior to colonization, humans always used African buffalo for meat and other products. The arrival of imperial powers marked the beginning of more extensive hunting, reducing buffalo populations in large areas of Africa. Buffalo production systems exist today along a gradient ranging from extensive (natural habitat) to semi-extensive (game ranches) to intensive (game farms) systems. These production systems rely on four sustainable uses: breeding, non-consumptive tourism, consumptive tourism and production of meat and other products. Private ownership and agro-sustainable biodiversity game ranching with buffalo has recently expanded in southern Africa, especially in South Africa, where it represents an extensive and productive land use.