The science of sharing land: How cattle and wildlife thrive side-by-side in Zimbabwe

Daily Maverick | 10.06.2026 03:38
If you expect to see a typical commercial cattle ranch at Shangani Holistic in Zimbabwe, you are in for a shock. Instead of neatly fenced, homogenous meadows, you find a 65,000-hectare open savanna where 7,700 commercial cattle graze side-by-side with roughly 3,500 wild animals, including zebras, giraffes, leopards and migrating herds of elephant.