As it is just after winter and the veld is still looking dull, Sondela has a game capture week every year round this time to accommodate the carrying capacity of the veld. The old dry grass will die out and put back nutrients in the soil so that the new green grass can use it and grow to provide food for the summer. But this won't be possible if the animal population is too big for the veld to carry thus the game capture. By catching the game we teach the first years how to do mass capture and we get the extra experience of medications and chemical capture that we did not get last year.
The animals captured then gets transported to the companies that bought them and then Sondela gets the money for them. This system has worked now for a couple of years but there have come times that they had to catch for more then one week due to unforeseen circumstances which throws around the planning for the other activities. We had a lot of fun helping to catch the game and it was interesting to see how fast some students can run when they stress out and adrenaline kicks in!
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| This is the view from the top of the transporting truck |
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| In this picture we need to hit the poles into the ground for our camoflage to be ready for the capture |
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| this is the post we stood at and we pulled the curtains closed from here. |
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| These are some of the animals we caught in the truck waiting to be transported. |
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