Camera trapping survey for mammal community monitoring at three grazing management properties in Gravelotte, South Africa

Camera trapping survey for mammal community monitoring at three grazing management properties in Gravelotte, South Africa

In this study, we used the camera trap survey to access the diversity, abundance, distribution, conservation status and activity rhythms of mammal species in three different property based on cattle management programme: the Holistic Planned Grazing (Rubbervale Rockies); the traditional selective rotational grazing for cattle (Rubbervale) and the cattle with unmanaged wildlife (Maranda) located in Gravelotte, in the east of the Limpopo province of South Africa. Our camera trapping survey used 17 camera traps, lasted nine (09) days (03 by sites) and provided the total real sampling effort of 153 camera.days with 10,063 detections resulted in 230 independent mammalian species events. We found nineteen species of mammals distributed in six orders and eleven families.