Palancas Negras

Conservation of Palancas Negras Gigantes in Angola Project aims to implement urgent measures to improve the conservation of the critically endangered Giant Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger variani), in the Luando Integral Nature Reserve, aiming in particular at the following purposes:

1. Organize an aerial survey and photo-taking operation to better monitor and protect gigantic the Giant Sable Antelope in the Luando Integral Nature Reserve in the next years;
2. Locate and count every survivor during a Giant Sable Antelope census in the Luando Integral Nature Reserve;

3. In the Luando Integral Nature Reserve, collars should be placed on the majority of animals and all herds to enable remote tracking;

4. Updated assessment of the state of the savannah, water wells, and human encroachment in the Luando Integral Nature Reserve;

5. Significant decrease in poaching in 2022.