Buffalo Owners Association

Welcome to our site!

The BOA website has been designed in the hope of providing substantial value to our members and will be updated regularly. Herebelow follows a short summary of what already is on offer at this early stage;

1) All the necessary protocols regarding the testing and translocation of disease free buffalo in South Africa.

2) The Terms of Reference and Code of Conduct applicable to all members of the BOA.

3) A series of interesting articles on a wide range of topics such as;

a. Diseases, disease control and –prevention.
b. Nutrition
c. Capture techniques
d. Boma management and transportation etc. Etc

4) A very interesting feature of the website is the opportunity for our members to advertise any buffalo they have for sale for a period of 30 days at zero cost under the `Auction or `For Sale` tabs. There is also the option to post photographs of the available animals on the site. BOA members thus have the opportunity to offer any buffalo that might be for sale to our other members. We trust our BOA members will benefit from the website and hope to receive your feedback with regards to any suggestions for improvement.

Interesting Facts

Buffalo African buffalos live in groups of large numbers, which often go as high as 2000 members. Members of the same subgroup stay together and sleep by resting their heads on one another.

The horns of an African buffalo are wonderful indicators of its age and gender. A large adult male has a hard shielding, which protects the base of its skull. This is absent in case of females and young male buffalos.

These buffalos always stay at close proximity of a water source. Particularly in the dry season, when they feed on the dried grasses, they take care to stay close to water.

Like Zebras, these buffaloes feed on tall, coarse grasses. While eating, they make use of their tongue and wide incisor row, to feed on the grass quickly.

African buffalos are highly dangerous and are more likely to attack when injured or cornered.

These buffalos are well-equipped with self defense mechanisms. Other than humans, they have very few predators, like lion, leopard and spotted hyena. However, even the mighty lions need to group up, to bring down a single buffalo.

Who is WRSA?

Buffalo WRSA is a non-profit organisation currently representing 1500 members of the registered 9000 game ranches. WRSAs main function is to liaise closely between the game ranchers, non-governmental and governmental authorities to ensure a healthy working relationship, assisting govenmental authorities with the setting up of policies, regulations and norms and standards applicable to the wildlife industry.

WRSA, as sole representative of the South African Game Rancher, represents the wildlife industry on the national Wildlife forum, a forum innitiated by the minister of Envinronmental Affairs and Tourism. Our main function and aim is to ensure that both parties, governmental authorities and the game rancher, reach a favourable solution and therefore the policies will be supported by government and positively implemented by the game rancher.

View WRSA website for more info.
www.wrsa.co.za