Lindsay Hunt

Lindsay Hunt is a South African hunter turned conservationist who played an important role in a project to produce Cape Buffalo breeding stock free of bovine tuberculosis and foot-and-mouth disease. This project has resulted in the establishing of disease-free herds in all nine provinces of South Africa, away from the TB-ravaged areas of the Kruger National Park.

Discovered in 1990, buffalo bovine tuberculosis is an airborne bacterial disease. Infected buffalo may carry the disease for long periods, becoming emaciated and eventually succumbing to predation. Tuberculosis has had a devastating effect on wild buffalo herds, crossing the species barrier and widely contaminating predators and scavengers.

The South African National Parks Board felt the only practical solution to the epidemic, was to breed disease-free buffalo. Lindsay Hunt sourced his first buffalo breeding stock from the gene pool of the Kruger Park and developed systems that have been acclaimed in wildlife management circles. [ [http://www.aviva-sa.com/projects/wildlife/buffalo/index.htm AVIVA ] ] [ [http://www.mnet.co.za/Mnet/Shows/carteblanche/story.asp?Id=1910 Mnet - Where Magic Lives ] ]

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