Mozambique: “The Gentleman” – photos

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Mozambique: “The Gentleman” – photos

9:08 CAT | 03 Aug 2021

All photos: Administração Nacional das Áreas de Conservação

The President of the Republic, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi and Wife, on their visit to the district of Mecula where the headquarters of the Special Reserve of Niassa (Mbatamila) is located, participated this Saturday, 31 July 2021 (World Day of the Inspector) in the operation of exchange of Satellite monitoring collars.

In 2018, the President of the Republic visited the Niassa Special Reserve and participated in the collar exchange operation, christening an elephant with the name “Mr President”.

In 2021, the President of the Republic and his wife participated in the operation to change the collar of the elephant “Mr. President” but the pachyderm escaped after several attempts.

President Filipe Nyusi and the technical team of the collar exchange operation made the decision to put the collar on another elephant.

The other elephant was then considered to be the brother of the elephant “Mr. President”, and after being immobilised to put on the collar, the President of the Republic named it “The Gentleman”.

It should be noted that the placement of monitoring collars via satellite is one of the technological interventions introduced in our Conservation Areas to control the movements of animals and elephants, in particular, allowing to know their habitat, dispersion, their seasonal movements and determining factors of these movements , even including food preferences, which makes it possible to better plan the law enforcement effort as well as prevent human-wildlife conflict.

This satellite monitoring collar exchange operation was also witnessed by the Minister of Land and Environment and the Minister of Return and Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of the Republic of Kenya.

See below the EXCLUSIVE photo report of this operation.