Using GPS collars on eight adult zebra, Robin Naidoo and other scientists from the World Wildlife Fund and Namibia’s Ministry of Environment and Tourism, in collaboration with Elephants Without Borders and Botswana’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks, have documented the annual sojourn of these striped sprinters back and forth between the floodplains of the Chobe River in Namibia and the grasslands of Botswana’s Nxai Pan National Park.
Just when conservationists think there is nothing left to discover, that our only task is to salvage nature—nature surprises us. That fact is humbling and also incredibly hopeful because the trite is indeed true: Wonders never cease It’s hard to believe that with all our knowledge and technology we are just now discovering the continent’s longest land-based wildlife journey—the distance is the equivalent of walking from San Diego to San Francisco. The zebra migration is even more unbelievable when you consider that Africa’s wildlife, like most around the world, has lost its freedom to roam over the years.
