Photo Libraries: Zimbabwe Range Restoration
This area on HMI’s learning site in Zimbabwe had been capped hard and bare for several decades and was believed by many to be beyond reclamation. A herd of between 300 and 600 cattle and goats had made no impact in four years. This photo was taken at the end of the dry season.
The same area six months later at the end of the growing season in a drought year (8 inches/200 mm of rain received in a 30-inch/750 mm rainfall area) after a herd of 200 cattle and just over 100 goats spent each night for one week bunched in a temporary predator-proof corral.
The same land 2 years later. Note the increase of plant species and covered
soil.
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