makhasa community game reserve

Makhasa Community Game Reserve – In 1997 Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife with assistance from the privately owned Phinda reserve fenced 2,800ha of tribal land on the edge of their reserves and stocked the area with most of the game species found in both Phinda and Mkhuze. The objective was to create a community owned reserve with direct income benefits to the local community. In 2007 WEI initiated and facilitated the funding for a number of monitoring projects on the Makhasa Community Game Reserve. One of the projects is a research study to investigate social structures within the Chacma baboon population in order to answer a number of scientific questions.