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Ed van Mourik
Mar 31, 2019
THE INSIDE STORY: LAND ROVERS R US?
Research team members at BPC’s field research camp called “Dog Camp” come and go and they all have different experiences and stories to...
Megan Claase
Jan 14, 2019
CATS VS DOGS
Let’s go back to 2013 when the Hat Pack, a newly formed African wild dog pack had just had pups. One of these pups was a female, Suzuka,...
Gabriele Cozzi, PhD
Jan 6, 2019
THE WALK OF LIFE: AFRICAN WILD DOG DISPERSAL AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
The African wild dog is Africa’s most endangered large carnivore and is listed as endangered in the IUCN Red List. Less than 6’000...
Neil Jordan, PHD
Dec 14, 2018
WHERE THE WILD DOGS ARE
One of the challenges we have in monitoring a population of endangered African wild dogs is the huge home ranges they cover. An average...
BPC
Nov 25, 2018
LIFE AS A RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Being a wildlife researcher in a camp in the middle of the bush takes lot of courage, passion and dedication to collect all the necessary...
Krystyna Golabek, PHD
Aug 28, 2018
CHANGING OF THE GUARD: DISPERSAL, OLD, AND NEW WILD DOG PACKS
Old dogs die, sadly – and, with them, established packs extinguish. But in the intact African wild dog population that we monitor in...
BPC
May 9, 2018
SPOOR TRACKING: SCIENCE MEETS LOCAL SKILLS
Knowing predator population sizes is of utmost importance to a diverse array of stakeholders, including government wildlife management...
BPC
Mar 22, 2018
BETTER TOGETHER: PARTNERING WITH BOTSWANA’S SAFARI INDUSTRY TO MULTIPLY RESEARCH & CONSERVATION RESULTS
Africa’s large carnivores are elusive. Most of them are primarily active at night, and all of them regularly traverse large home ranges...
Caleb Bryce
Jan 28, 2018
A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK
Happy New Year from Wild Dog Camp and the rest of the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust! My wife Carli and I recently returned to the...
Caleb Bryce
Dec 2, 2017
CALLS OF THE WILD
The multitude of camp projects and fieldwork priorities have made for a busy last few months. But the gradually cooling weather is...
Dominik Behr
Sep 12, 2017
TRACKING DOWN A WILD DOG DEN
The winter months of June, July, and August mark the coldest period of the year in Northern Botswana. It is this cool period of the year...
Ed van Mourik
Aug 5, 2017
AD HOC AND OPPORTUNISTIC: OBSERVATIONS MOST EXTRAORDINARY
Notes from the field, 05June2017: On my dutiful way to collect SD cards from camera traps a few kilometres into a mopane woodland, I was...
Megan Claase
Jul 23, 2017
A (SAD) TALE OF TWO SISTERS
When you spend your time studying wild dogs, you cannot help but come to know them as individuals. The pack I spent most of my time with...
Dr. Peter Apps
Jun 27, 2017
BOTSWANA PREDATOR CONSERVATION TRUST CAMERA TRAP CATCHES WORLD RECORD GROUP OF HONEY BADGERS
The Botswana Predator Conservation Trust uses camera traps to monitor the behaviour of large carnivores, and for the past five months we...
Dr. Peter Apps
Jun 10, 2017
ELEPHANTS SABOTAGE!
ELEPHANTS TRASHING OUR CAMERA TRAPS The big predators that BPCT works on are rare and elusive, and so we use camera traps to monitor...
Hugh Webster, PhD
May 1, 2017
RECORD RAIN
The rain started on the 14th November. It was the first rain since April and was a blessed relief. October had been brutally hot as usual...
Hugh Webster, PhD
Apr 3, 2017
EARTHQUAKE!
The whole structure of the tent began shaking strangely. Was anelephant pushing against one of the poles that support the deck onwhich...
BPC
Jun 1, 2016
PROTECTING ROOM TO ROAM
We now know that most of the world’s protected areas are too small to sustain healthy populations of large animals, which require a great...
Jessica Vitale
Nov 8, 2015
SOLVING THE PUZZLE
My first experience studying African large carnivores was as a research assistant for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (BPCT)...
Neil Jordan, PHD
Aug 14, 2015
SCARY-ASS COWS!
Although trophy hunting of African lions and leopards has been banned in Botswana for many years, still the killing of lions continues....
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