South Sudan's epic effort to protect the world's largest mammal migration

Antelopes migrating from South Sudan in search of water resources during the dry season.South Sudan is trying to protect the largest land mammal migration in history by partnering with the nonprofit organization African Parks to safeguard the migratory species that rely on the ecosystem to survive.

Researchers have long known the migration existed, but didn't understand exactly how it worked. To learn the animals' migration patterns, African Parks with South Sudanese students at Juba University and people from ethnic groups conducted aerial surveys over six months in 2023. The aerial surveys collected eight hours of daily data, counting every animal and identifying each species.

African Parks began collaring species involved in the migration, as well as giraffes, lions, Nile lechwe, elephants and cheetahs, to track their movements and understand the factors driving them. "Most of the people view the migration as something that has been going on for centuries," Anthony Abang John Urbano, a member of the Bahr el Ghazal tribe, told ABC News.

"They are really proud that we are exposing that natural resource, especially the wildlife under conservation of South Sudan," Juanna Kenneth Ali, a member of the Moru tribe and technician for African Parks, told ABC News. "They are really proud that I am part of a group who did great work exposing our nature to the world".

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