African wild dog overmarking a synthetic (lab produced artificial) scent mark precisely as if it were a natural scent mark. A few months...

Botswana Predator Conservation (BPC), a program of Wild Entrust, again partnered in 2025 with the Maun Animal Welfare Society (MAWS) to...

The territories of African wild dogs are vast, on the order of hundreds of square miles. Consequently, wild dogs were often described as...

Our BioBoundary experiments at livestock enclosures have previously shown that BioBoundary deterrents, based on predators’ chemical...

An adult African wild dog interacting with newborn pups that emerged from the den for the first time. Post-doctoral researcher Kasim...

Collaring Rossignol Our research camp lies on the eastern fringes of the Okavango Delta, just outside of the famous Moremi Game Reserve....

Example of two images that the African Carnivore Wildbook successfully matched as containing the same individual. Dr. Gabriele Cozzi It’s...

A pack of African wild dogs at dawn. In order to be able to monitor it, we decided to put a GPS/Satellite collar on another adult male in...

Dijo pack as they moved off into the sunset after having their snares removed. Having opportunistically radio-collared the dominant male...

Leopards excel in adaptability and survive in virtually any environment, cleverly using every resource to their benefit. It started with...

Leopard caught on a camera trap. Dr. Peter Apps runs Botswana Predator Conservation's BioBoundary Project BIOBOUNDARY PREDATOR...

A pack of African wild dogs with one individual carrying a GPS satellite collar. The African wild dog dispersal project is a...

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...

​Over the past few years, we have equipped dispersing African wild dogs with GPS/Satellite radio collars as part of a collaborative...

Fatal human-wildlife conflict is a growing problem. Losses of livestock to predators severely impact rural livelihoods, and predators...

There’s no  way around it: to investigate how African wild dogs use shared marking sites (what we call an SMS), we need to use continuous...

My favourite thing to do is to sit and watch wild animals. I always wonder what they’re doing and why? – which, in a roundabout way, has...

The BioBoundary of artificial scent marks that the BotswanaPredator Conservation Trust is developing to keep endangered African wild dogs...

African wild dogs are great travellers; for the nine months of the year that they are not denning with pups, they range over hundreds or...

Think of a pride of lions. Now think of a beach... Maybe its not the most obvious analogy, (brought on by the heat and an active...