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The Decline of the Kalahari Wildebeest ORYX VOL 26 NO 3 JULY 1992 The decline of the Kalahari wildebeest C. A. Spinage In the 1980s international publicity was given to the deaths of thousands of wildebeest in southern Botswana. The cause was their drought-induced migrations being prevented by the cordon fences erected to protect cattle from disease. While the mortalities may have accounted for 90 per cent of the wildebeest population since 1979, archive records from the 1920s and 1940s show that the decline started much earlier. Wildebeest were once so numerous in the southern Kalahari that local farmers regarded them as a menace, competing with cattle for grazing and transmitting malignant catarrh. Extermination programmes reduced the wildebeest population to such an extent that by 1961 the Botswana Government classified it as a game animal to be hunted only by licence. Introduction with some caution. There is no doubt that a major population In 1980, at the beginning of a long drought crash did take place. This has been a recurrent period in Botswana, which ran from 1979 to phenomenon in Botswana (and no doubt for- 1987, a large but unestimated number of blue merly in neighbouring South Africa also) wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus died at Lake (Spinage and Matlhare, in press), resulting Xau in the north-east of the Kalahari Desert from the mean 20-year drought cycle to which (Owens and Owens, 1980) (Figure 1). This was this part of southern Africa is allegedly prone followed in 1983 by an estimated 50,000, and (Tyson, 1986). possibly as many' as 80,000, further deaths A major migration of the wildebeest has not (Parry, 1987). Although international attention been shown to be an annual occurrence, but was focused entirely on deaths in this locality, appears to take place only when the quality of it was not the only place where wildebeest the habitat falls below a certain minimum died. As Owens and Owens (1980) mentioned, requirement, probably related to the amount 250 km to the south, from Lephephe to Dibete, of preformed water in the food. When this thousands of wildebeest as well as hartebeest happens the movement of the wildebeest is Alcephalus buselaphus died in 1980. Hundreds believed to be from a wet season refuge, in an of carcasses were reported from Sojwe Pan area characterized by numerous saline pans (Kramer, 1980). Subsequent aerial survey esti- stretching in a broad band in a northwesterly mates conducted from 1986 to 1990 suggested direction across the middle of the southern that more than 90 per cent mortality may have Kalahari, known as the schwelle. From here taken place among the wildebeest in the they move north to north-east, a possible for- southern Kalahari population since 1979, mer northern migration to Lake Ngami or the when the population was estimated at 262,000 Okavango Delta being severed since 1954 by (DHV, 1980). This estimate was made at the an east-west veterinary cordon fence. This peak of a run of good years and just prior to fence channels them eastwards to the region the drought, although it is recorded that 1979 of Lake Xau (Williamson et al., 1988; was an exceptionally dry year and drastic Williamson and Mbano, 1988). Reports of redistributions of species took place. As a mortality in 1963, when 300,000 are estimated result, the estimate was a merged one without to have died east of this area (Child, 1972), confidence intervals and should be treated suggest that they once moved as far east as the 147 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.19, on 29 Sep 2021 at 12:27:21, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300023577 ORYX VOL 26 NO 3 JULY 1992 Shashe River, but this movement may have cross over into the Union between Tsabong related to a separate eastern population. and Khuis where there is no fence. (c) It is only in times of drought that they force their way through the fences and mix Past records with grazing stock. (d) Of recent years bad droughts occurred Archive records show that there was once a in 1933,1937 and 1941. significant migration east and south-east from (e) When the wildebeest are on trek they the southern Kalahari to the Molopo River. move southwards steadily and can cover 20 to This first appears in reports in 1941 by the offi- 25 miles in a day .... cer in charge of Werda police station. In a let- (f) What steps do the Union Government ter dated 28 July 1941 he stated that the area [i.e. South Africa] propose to take to control was being 'over run by great masses of the large number of wildebeest breeding in Wildebeest all of which are moving down to the Nosop Game Reserve? These no doubt the river looking for water ... The Wildebeest constitute just as big a menace to the farmers are in extremely poor condition and many of of the Gordonia District as do our wildebeest them are to be found dead on the Veld, some to the farmers of Vryburg and Kuruman of them are so poor that they can only just Districts. The Parks Board will probably say stagger out of the river bank ...' (Preston- that they don't but nevertheless I gather that a Whyte, 1941a). good many trekked out last year' (Anon., On the 6 October 1941 the same writer 1942). reported: '... most of the Wildebeest seem to have moved off from the river. There are still, however, mobs to be seen and they are in a Wildebeest destruction pityful [sic] condition. Many thousands of these animals died, no doubt, from thirst and In October 1946 the question of destruction of starvation. As a result of the high death rate of wildebeest to control malignant catarrh in cat- game in the B.P. [Bechuanaland Protectorate] tle was debated by the European Advisory Kalahari area, beasts of prey are numerous ...' Council (EAC, 1946), the problem area appar- (Preston-Whyte, 1941b). ently being the Tuli Block on the Limpopo Another report, probably of 5 September River. These were not reported as migratory 1941, commented: 'The wildebeest does not wildebeest, but they may have been animals possess the drought resisting qualities of the that stayed behind after migrating in the 1941 other game of the Kalahari. This whole district drought: is very dry and the wildebeest have been mov- 'The question of the destruction of wilde- ing south in large numbers in search of water beeste has cropped up several times in the last and more succulent grazing ... Large numbers three or four years. Many people are com- have reached the Molopo ... Many dead and plaining. During the war years ammunition dying wildebeest were seen in and around was very scarce and all game increased mud holes in the river ... Thousands of tremendously. Many farms which had been gorged vultures were encountered along the abandoned for some years have become abso- river. In some cases they could scarcely raise lute game reserves. Some farms which were themselves from the ground. One farmer had never taken up before and which were never dragged 32 carcasses out of a muddy water- shot over much are also full of game and the hole ...'(Anon., 1941). particular species that is constituting a real Probably the same author of the above nuisance is wildebeest...' (Weatherilt, 1946). report, the Assistant District Commissioner 'About twenty years ago the late Mr H. C. for Tsabong, wrote on 10 January 1942: Weatherilt complained very bitterly in this '(b) The wildebeest trek South every winter Council of the same thing and asked for a free [original emphasis] in large herds and many hand to destroy wildebeest ... we were 148 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.19, on 29 Sep 2021 at 12:27:21, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300023577 DECLINE OF THE KALAHARI WILDEBEEST allowed to shoot twenty-five, which is useless Southern Rhodesia and the Northern when the wildebeest are in hundreds coming Transvaal. As regards extermination of and going as they like ...' (Glover, 1946). Protectorate wildebeeste in my district, I may The reference to 'about twenty years ago' say that not half the increase was destroyed. referred to a brief report in the Minutes of the The Chartered Company agreed to the exter- Council for 29 January-3 February 1923. The mination, and on the British South Africa member for Tuli Block, H. C. Weatherilt, Company's ground 300 head were destroyed.' referred to a letter that the Resident It was not until 1953 that the landowners Commissioner had received from the African got their way and the wildebeest was down- Ranching Farms requesting permission to graded from 'Large Game' to 'Small Game' destroy wildebeest. He stated that it was throughout Botswana, which meant that it impossible to carry out progressive farming could be hunted without a licence. This had where wildebeest abounded and that they been applied from time to time for limited should be taken from the list of protected periods and in specified areas since 1924 to game and treated as vermin, shot on sight help control migrating wildebeest. The classi- without licence or permit (Anon., 1923). The fication was revoked in 1961 when it became a question was raised again in 1931 (Anon., game animal huntable only on a licence 1931) by a Mr Mason, who complained of cat- (Spinage, 1991).
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