Wildlife Ecology Lab
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Wildlife Ecology Lab @MandelaUni | Applied research | Carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 | Snapshot Safari: South Africa 🇿🇦📸 | Ungulate ecology 🐘🦏 | Honours, MSc & PhD
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Wildlife Ecology Lab 3/ His project is partnered with the Cape Leopard Trust (CLT) and Panthera. Over the next few weeks, we'll be following Silindokuhle on his journey to research leopards in an area where little is known about their distribution or threats. Stay tuned! #leopard #monitoring
Excited to be heading to Kruger National Park to see how the Wildlife Ecology Lab Kruger #lion survey is progressing! 🤩🦁📸 Funded by Lion Recovery Fund, the study will provide the first robust population estimate for the southern & central Kruger lion population! 🇿🇦🦁
Not sure all of the #lions on our Kruger National Park survey appreciate having their photos taken! 😆🦁📸 📸 Heath Curry/Julia Morris
Congratulations to Alice Bernard on this awesome publication! 🤩 Using camera traps and local ecological knowledge, Alice's study investigated how life-history traits are associated with the persistence of mammal species in human-dominated habitats in the Garden Route! 📸🐾
Excited to be attending the inaugural Snare Mitigation Symposium hosted by Cape Leopard Trust (CLT) Tomorrow I'll be presenting our work (Cornelia Warrer Elodie Briefer Damaris Riedner) using citizen science data to identify snare hotspots in Kruger NP 🦁🐆🐾
It was great to have Nic Elliot from Lion Recovery Fund and Arjun Gopalaswamy join us in Kruger to share their insights and advice while we finish up our lion survey of southern Kruger! 🦁🐾 A couple of weeks left on our survey and some great data coming in! 🦁📸