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BPC BLOG - WE RESEARCH TO PROTECT
Dr. Peter Apps
Oct 33 min read
GOATS DO ROAM, AND BIOBOUNDARY PREDATOR DETERRENTS KEEP THEM SAFE
Our BioBoundary experiments at livestock enclosures have previously shown that BioBoundary deterrents, based on predators’ chemical...
David Hofmann
Nov 17, 20223 min read
SNARED DOGS!
written by David Hoffman In early May this year, Mogotlo Lodge, a small tourist camp close to Dog Camp just outside the Moremi Game...
Megan Claase
Oct 303 min read
HOW WILD DOGS TALK TO EACH OTHER AND WHAT IT TELLS US ABOUT TERRITORIALITY
The territories of African wild dogs are vast, on the order of hundreds of square miles. Consequently, wild dogs were often described as...
Dr. Peter Apps
Oct 33 min read
GOATS DO ROAM, AND BIOBOUNDARY PREDATOR DETERRENTS KEEP THEM SAFE
Our BioBoundary experiments at livestock enclosures have previously shown that BioBoundary deterrents, based on predators’ chemical...
Kasim Rafiq, PhD
Jul 83 min read
The Importance of Fieldwork in Animal Behaviour & Conservation
I’m very good at finding hidden holes. In fact, during my PhD, I found myself driving a Land Rover into a surprisingly large one while...
David Hoffman
Oct 20, 20237 min read
Dogs Sometimes Move in Mysterious Ways
COLLARING ROSSIGNOL Our research camp lies on the eastern fringes of the Okavango Delta, just outside of the famous Moremi Game Reserve....
Gabriele Cozzi, PhD
Oct 16, 20233 min read
How Technology Is Helping Research and Conservation
It’s indisputable that technology has made our lives easier and often times better. And more and more frequently technology is making it...
David Hofmann
Nov 17, 20222 min read
SNARED DOGS! (Part 2- FORENSICS)
written by David Hofmann & J.Weldon McNutt Having opportunistically radio-collared the dominant male in the Dijo Pack in order to monitor...
Hugh Webster, PhD
Feb 25, 20227 min read
THE LEOPARD NEXT DOOR (WITH NOTES ON HOW NOT TO CATCH A LEOPARD
It started with a phone call. “Do you still have those leopard traps?” asked Rob, a wildlife vet calling camp from Maun. Megan confirmed...
Dr. Peter Apps
Jun 17, 202111 min read
BIOBOUNDARY PREDATOR REPELLENTS; DOING IMPOSSIBLE THINGS
Dr. Peter Apps runs Botswana Predator Conservation's BioBoundary Project BIOBOUNDARY PREDATOR REPELLENTS; DOING IMPOSSIBLE THINGS “We...
David Hofmann
Jun 1, 20213 min read
THE AFRICAN WILD DOG: AN AMBASSADOR FOR THE WORLD'S LARGEST TRANSOUNDARY CONSERVATION AREA
The African wild dog dispersal project is a collaboration between University of Zurich and BPC. Dispersal is an important process...
Megan Claase
Aug 24, 20205 min read
TOP GUN
Goose is a leopard, or rather, was a leopard. I would prefer not to admit that he is probably dead, but I think it’s time to face the...
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