Our collaboration with Professor Briana Abrahms’ group at the University of Washington is uncovering new links between climate change, carnivore behavior, and human-wildlife coexistence. This research integrates novel bio-logging technologies, observation, big data analytics, and social surveys to 1) investigate how African wild dogs and lions ...

Together with our partners at the University of Zurich, we added an extra piece to the puzzle improving our understanding of the dispersal patterns, and landscape connectivity of African wild dogs in the Kavango-Zambezi Trans Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) ecosystem...

The BioBoundary Project is developing technically simple, minimally invasive, ecologically benign, and economically viable new tools to reduce human-wildlife conflict (HWC). We have discovered that some synthetic odour-based equivalents of predators’ scent signals can keep predators away from livestock, and some plant-based odours ...

BioBoundary: Predator Deterrents
We conduct research into ameliorating human-predator conflict in cattle ranches and subsistence livestock areas where HWC impacts both people and wildlife. The main focus is on leopards, but we also detect repellant effects on other species that threaten livestock.

Years of efforts have finally paid off as the year ended with the first peer reviewed paper (of many to come) based on photographic data collected by tourists and local tour operators. Tourists’ photographs of wild animals all come with a date and a location and these collectively constitute useful data when submitted ...

During 2023, together with the University of Zurich, we continued to monitor and research seasonal variations and long-term population trends of both predator and herbivore species using camera traps. Despite a few cameras having to be retired due to mechanical damage we were still able to cover the majority of BPC’s core historic ...

This year, on 22nd April in which is celebrated as Earth Day, we launched an ambitious tree planting campaign because “Every Day-is-Earth-Day”.

With the current climate change alarm, there has never been a more important time to help. The initiative aims to plant one indigenous tree in every school ground in Ngamiland every year, as a legacy ...

As we embrace the need to focus more on education, Mr. Thuto Dimbo is a new and valuable team member of the CoEx team recruited as the Education Officer for Sustainable Development who is growing these conservation education initiatives:

Herding for Health (H4H) is essentially about changing cultural practices from multiple small and largely unattended cattle herds to bigger, collectively managed herds that are healthier, more productive and safe from wildlife. In 2023, our communal cattle herding program has increased by nearly a third from the number of enrolled cattle ...

This simple feedback loop is making waste wonderful! As part of our ‘Village Greens’ project in Habu, we accept waste from Xigera Safari Lodge - part of The Red Carnation Hotel Collection,

The Habu Community Garden- turning efforts into food
The Habu Community Garden is back on track after a mini hurricane early in the year, producing fresh vegetables for Habu and neighboring villages

Multiple training courses have been provided for WEA staff this year to build personal capacity for more effective implementation of all projects in our Research | Play | Coexist programmes.

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