FACT FILE
PROJECT FACTS
Name: Free State Game Capture
Background: The work of
professionally capturing wild
animals began in the 1970s in
South Africa. Since then, the
methods for carrying out the work
have been refined and the work
has become more specialized.
Today, there are professional
game capture teams all over the
country.
Volvo FM from 2003 with a
380 bhp, 13-liter diesel engine
and a South-African trailer from
SA Trucks. The tractor-trailer is
22 meters (72 feet) long and
weighs 24 tons. The vehicle is
used every day during the game
capture season, between March
and October, to transport wild
animals out on the savannah and
on normal roads.
Location: Nature reserves in Free
State Province, South Africa.
Number of trucks: One Volvo FM,
three other trucks and a crane
truck, as well as five pick-up trucks;
four Land Rovers and a Ford.
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Watch the video of
Petrus Motsoane
working together with
the game capture team
to capture the buffaloes
at www.youtube.com/
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