Posted on 06/27/2024 7:16:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tiang, an African antelope, migrate across the Badingilo & Boma National Parks in South Sudan.
Image credit: ©Marcus Westberg
Around 6 million antelope have been recorded on a trek across East Africa, marking the world’s largest land mammal migration ever recorded.
The scale of the Great Nile Migration recently became apparent through an ongoing project between African Parks and the Government of South Sudan.
Between April 28 and May 15, 2023, after the first rains of the season, planes were used to carry out an extensive aerial survey of the Boma Badingilo Jonglei Landscape in the east of South Sudan, documenting the migration of roughly 5 million white-eared kob, 300,000 tiang, 350,000 Mongalla gazelle, and 160,000 Bohor reedbuck.
“The results of this survey are nothing short of staggering. The astonishing scale of the migration is only equaled by the responsibility to ensure that it survives into the future in an extremely complex landscape,” Peter Fearnhead, CEO of African Parks, said in a statement.
Along with the galavanting antelopes, the survey noted how elephants, giraffes, lions, and cheetah populations have persisted in the area. Likewise, there are still massive populations of large birds, including open-billed stork, marabou stork, yellow-billed stork, Abdim’s stork, woolly-necked stork, black-crowned cranes, herons, and several species of vultures.
Tiang, an African antelope, migrate across the Badingilo & Boma National Parks in South Sudan.
Image credit: ©Marcus Westberg
Around 6 million antelope have been recorded on a trek across East Africa, marking the world’s largest land mammal migration ever recorded.
The scale of the Great Nile Migration recently became apparent through an ongoing project between African Parks and the Government of South Sudan.
Between April 28 and May 15, 2023, after the first rains of the season, planes were used to carry out an extensive aerial survey of the Boma Badingilo Jonglei Landscape in the east of South Sudan, documenting the migration of roughly 5 million white-eared kob, 300,000 tiang, 350,000 Mongalla gazelle, and 160,000 Bohor reedbuck.
“The results of this survey are nothing short of staggering. The astonishing scale of the migration is only equaled by the responsibility to ensure that it survives into the future in an extremely complex landscape,” Peter Fearnhead, CEO of African Parks, said in a statement.
Along with the galivanting antelopes, the survey noted how elephants, giraffes, lions, and cheetah populations have persisted in the area. Likewise, there are still massive populations of large birds, including open-billed stork, marabou stork, yellow-billed stork, Abdim’s stork, woolly-necked stork, black-crowned cranes, herons, and several species of vultures.
As the country strives to recover, the future of these rich ecosystems could ultimately hinge on how human relations in the area resolve.
“This wildlife and larger ecosystem is the basis for survival for multiple ethnic groupings which are often in conflict with each other over resources. Successful management of this landscape will only be possible through building trust with and amongst these ethnic groupings,” explained Fearnhead.
“Working with these local communities to protect this vital ecosystem will help perpetuate this global phenomenon whilst also bringing about stability, safety, and security and creating a sustainable future for the people who live in this area – many of whom are still recovering after years of war and disruption,” he continued.
That would be something to see. I don’t think it would ever be boring if you could be part of their entire journey.
200 lbs locusts, lol
It’s a good thing they’re not cows.
Destroying the planet with every antelope fart.
I'm assuming this is a north/south pattern: north after the monsoon for annual grasses and greening shrubs, give birth, and then back south to perennials. One wonders what role people played in that cycle with cattle in the early Holocene.
They got nothing on Bidens No Border-Border.
Who gnu?.........................
We’ve got twice that for human animals illegally entering the US annually.
LOL!
Thank you, Red.
Climate change! Trump’s fault!
I think some may be Interlopers?
One is named Waldo. Find him................
“Around 6 million antelope have been recorded on a trek across East Africa, marking the world’s largest land mammal migration ever recorded.”
Apparently the authors don’t know about the huge numbers of mammals crossing the U.S. southern border.
Much larger.
Actually the pole shifting and the changes in the earths magnetic field many animals use for navigation could explain this event.
Pick up a rifle and kill our next meal!
At first I thought this was an article about mass immigration by illegals.
That’s a difference without a distinction....................
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