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If you can, visit a ranch! It would be best if you can create this project from what you experience on a ranch. If that is not possible, you can do your research on the Web.
If you are on or near a ranch, get permission to visit and spend time on the land, asking questions of the rancher(s) who run it. Some questions you will want to ask include:

What is the location and size of the ranch?
What kinds of ranch animals are there?
What kinds of wildlife are there?
How/where do they interact (water supplies, pastures, woods)?
What are the benefits to the land and water of the animals interacting?
How do the animals get along?
What predator problems do the ranchers face?
How do they protect from predators?
What fencing issues with wildlife are there?
What are the migration patterns of the animals?
What other things do the ranchers do with regard to wildlife management?
The finished product can be a written report (should be at least three pages, double-spaced, and include photos), or a presentation or video (make it at least four minutes long). If you can, take photos or videos (with permission).

If you are not near a ranch, do your research through videos and articles on the Web. Be sure to fully cite all your sources, and be sure that you have permission to use the information, photos, or videos. If you have personal experience with wildlife on ranchlands, add it to your report or presentation. Make it interesting, visual, and focused on how ranches and wildlife benefit each other, and include details of best-management practices that you encounter. ( DOES NOT NEED TO BE THREE PAGES, JUST ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN A PARAGRAPH FORM PLZZZZ)

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The feasibility and profitability of game ranching have been amply demonstrated by a number of studies. The rationale behind advocating game ranching in Africa is that conditions in many parts of' the continent, whether resulting from inadequate rainfall or presence of certain disease organisms' are not appropriate for production of exotic cattle and other domestic stocks. Indigenous wild animal species on the other hand have evolved in the African ecosystem and are better adapted to the prevailing conditions and should therefore be more productive.

Game ranching is currently most developed in southern Africa (particularly South Africa Namibia and Zimbabwe), although a private game ranch, the Galana Ranch, was established in Kenya in the 1970s (King and Heath, 1975; Thresher, 1980). The ranch initially focused on three species: the fringe eared oryx, Oryx beisa callotis, the African buffalo and the eland. Reported advantages of the eland over the Boran cattle included much lower water requirement, faster breeding and growth, earlier maturity and ability to put on weight in grazing conditions under which the Boran cattle began to lose weight and approximately 14 % higher dressing out weight. In addition to these biological and physiological advantages a cost-benefit analysis of maintaining a breeding herd of 11,000 oryx and 5000 Boran on the ranch showed clearly that the financial returns on the oryx was far superior to that of cattle (Thresher, 1980).

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