Countrywide Animal and Range Assessment Project Final Report

The Okavango Research Institute library is a custodian of unique and rare personal collections  that comprises of information sources that were owned by researchers or enthusiasts who worked in different capacities in Ngami land region who had interest about Okavango Delta  and the people who live around it.  The library has added to it's special collection the 1980 Countrywide Animal and Range Assessment Project Final Report, which include the following:

Final report comprises:

I Main report

II Physical Environment 

III Vegetation

IV Animal populations

V Interpretation of Animal Distributions

VI Rangeland Monitoring

VII Detailed Study Hukuntsi Area

Map sheets 

EV-1-1 Kalahari Livestock Distribution

EV-1-2 Kalahari Existing Land Use 1979

EV-1-3 Kalahari Recommended Zoning; WMAs, communal & commercial zones

EV-I--4 Kalahari Rangeland Map 1. 1500.000

VE-III-1a/1b/1c Landscape ecological vegetation map 1.500.000

AP-IV 32 sheets: Relative Density Seasonal Distribution of:

·         Hartebeest,

·         Gemsbok;

·         Eland,

·         Ostrich,

·         Springbok,

·         Giraffe,

·         Wildebeest

·         (in combination with other wildlife),

·         Principle Game Areas 1978/79;

·         Makgadikgadi separately.

PE-II-1 Kalahari distribution of pans

PE-II-2 Contour map of the project area

HU-VII-1 Rangeland map of the Hukuntsi-Ngwatle pan area

HU-VII-2 Detailed Rangeland map of the Ngwatle pan area


Interested in these see: Mosepele Mabutho