Marloth Park Management Plan. - Nkomazi Local Municipality

Table 9: The current stocking densities, based on the September 2005 game count, if all open areas on Marloth Park
is accepted as potentially suitable habitat for game
Type of animal Number of Mean mass Large-animal Browse-animal Equivalent Equivalent Percentage of Percentage of
Animals of animal units units large-animal browse-animal ecological ecological
in kg per animal per animal units per group units per group graze capacity browse capacity
Low selectivity grazers
Buffalo 0 650 1.25 0.13 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Burchell's zebra 62 300 0.66 0.00 41.17 0.00 13.54 0.00
White rhinoceros 0 1800 2.83 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sub total 62 13.54 0.00
High selectivity grazers
Blue wildebeest 40 210 0.54 0.00 21.68 0.00 7.13 0.00
Roan antelope 0 250 0.61 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sable antelope 0 220 0.50 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Tsessebe 0 130 0.35 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Waterbuck 0 200 0.50 0.07 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sub total 40 7.13 0.00
Mixed feeders
Common impala 437 55 0.10 0.25 45.17 108.42 14.86 95.95
Eland 0 500 0.43 1.56 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Kudu 33 200 0.10 0.80 3.23 26.30 1.06 23.28
Nyala 0 70 0.12 0.32 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Warthog 43 70 0.10 0.12 4.26 5.11 1.40 4.53
Sub total 513 17.32 123.75
Browse feeders
Black rhinoceros 0 900 0.00 3.43 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Bushbuck 3 40 0.02 0.20 0.05 0.59 0.02 0.52
Common duiker 6 20 0.00 0.22 0.01 1.31 0.00 1.16
Giraffe 22 1000 0.02 4.28 0.40 94.20 0.13 83.36
Steenbok 0 11 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sub total 31 0.15 85.04
TOTAL 646 38.15 208.80
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