In honour of World Wetlands Day We were searching for Mason , a collared male lion that usually roams near Xini Lagoon in the Moremi Game Reserve. We hadn’t seen him in some time, and our research protocol required us to locate him and download data from his GPS collar. When his signal finally appeared, we left the main track and drove off-road toward the steady beep.  Recent heavy rains had transformed the landscape. Tall grass concealed the ground, making it impossible to

African wild dog overmarking a synthetic (lab produced artificial) scent mark precisely as if it were a natural scent mark. The Importance of Scent Communication in African Wild Dogs A few months ago, Botswana Predator Conservation’s BioBoundary project achieved a significant milestone. For the first time, we captured evidence that African wild dogs respond behaviorally to single lab-produced components of their territorial scent mark signals. They react in the same way they

The Importance of Veterinary Services in Conservation Botswana Predator Conservation (BPC), a program of Wild Entrust, partnered again in 2025 with the Maun Animal Welfare Society (MAWS). Together, they brought essential veterinary services through several vaccination campaigns to key communities within the Okavango landscape. BPC staff raised over P50,000 for the 2025 MAWS vaccination program in rural areas, supported by African Bush Camps , Chitabe Camp , Natural Selection

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 signals, protect livestock by keeping predators away.  But nearly all predator attacks happen when animals are out grazing, and using BioBoundary chemical signals at overnight kraals does not protect these free-ranging livestock. Adapting our BioBoundary deterrents to protect livestock while they are grazing has the potential to revolutionize how

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 the pack which would allow us to reliably relocate the newly named Dijo Pack, and to gather data on its movements. In early May this year, Mogotlo Lodge, a small tourist camp close to Dog Camp just outside the Moremi Game Reserve, reported that they saw a new pack of wild dogs and one of the dogs had a wire-snare around its neck. We immedia

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 REPELLENTS; DOING IMPOSSIBLE THINGS “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” - Vince Lombardi Botswana Predator Conservation’s BioBoundary Project is developing new ways of mitigating human-predator conflict, by using artificial equivalents of natural chemical signals to keep predators away from livestock, or

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

Written by Megan Claase Goose is a leopard, or rather, was a leopard. I would prefer not to admit that he is probably dead, but I think...

​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...