Grass species composition was surveyed using line transects on areas where livestock grazing occurred. The GPS collars recorded the geographic position of the areas where animals were grazing, at five-minute intervals during the wet and dry season. The study used Global Positioning Systems (GPS) that were placed on six animals including three sheep and three cattle, selected randomly from participating households. The objective of this study was to assess livestock grazing distribution in communal rangeland of the Eastern Cape in South Africa in order to improve livestock grazing. However, understanding how livestock use rangelands has not been a subject of many studies as the devices to monitor livestock were not available. In the past, rangelands were managed in a semi-nomadic manner, where pastoralists would distribute livestock to different parts of the rangeland depending on the availability of forage.
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