On Wednesday 22 May 2019 the government of Botswana announced an end to a five-year suspension of hunting on government land. The lifting...

New packs of wild dogs sometimes simply don’t last – potential packs dissolving within a few weeks. But others last for years. How to...

Research team members at BPC’s field research camp called “Dog Camp” come and go and they all have different experiences and stories to...

Let’s go back to 2013 when the Hat Pack, a newly formed African wild dog pack had just had pups. One of these pups was a female, Suzuka,...

The African wild dog is Africa’s most endangered large carnivore and is listed as endangered in the IUCN Red List. Less than 6’000...

One of the challenges we have in monitoring a population of endangered African wild dogs is the huge home ranges they cover. An average...

Being a wildlife researcher in a camp in the middle of the bush takes lot of courage, passion and dedication to collect all the necessary...

Old dogs die, sadly – and, with them, established packs extinguish. But in the intact African wild dog population that we monitor in...

Knowing predator population sizes is of utmost importance to a diverse array of stakeholders, including government wildlife management...

Africa’s large carnivores are elusive. Most of them are primarily active at night, and all of them regularly traverse large home ranges...

Happy New Year from Wild Dog Camp and the rest of the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust! My wife Carli and I recently returned to the...

The multitude of camp projects and fieldwork priorities have made for a busy last few months. But the gradually cooling weather is...

The winter months of June, July, and August mark the coldest period of the year in Northern Botswana. It is this cool period of the year...

Notes from the field, 05June2017: On my dutiful way to collect SD cards from camera traps a few kilometres into a mopane woodland, I was...

When you spend your time studying wild dogs, you cannot help but come to know them as individuals. The pack I spent most of my time with...

The Botswana Predator Conservation Trust uses camera traps to monitor the behaviour of large carnivores, and for the past five months we...

ELEPHANTS TRASHING OUR CAMERA TRAPS The big predators that BPCT works on are rare and elusive, and so we use camera traps to monitor...

The rain started on the 14th November. It was the first rain since April and was a blessed relief. October had been brutally hot as usual...

The whole structure of the tent began shaking strangely. Was anelephant pushing against one of the poles that support the deck onwhich...

We now know that most of the world’s protected areas are too small to sustain healthy populations of large animals, which require a great...