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...

My first experience studying African large carnivores was as a research assistant for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (BPCT)...

Although trophy hunting of African lions and leopards has been banned in Botswana for many years, still the killing of lions continues....

​As a field research assistant, I am responsible for primary data collection and database maintenance. On a normal day I wake up just...

Northern Botswana has an abundance of wildlife and one of the most diverse carnivore guilds in Africa.  Hearing lions (Panthera leo)...

“Kubu” is a lone African wild dog. On first thought, such a strange state of affairs clearly exonerates her – and any research data...

African wild dogs resting in the dry grass. The Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (BPCT) has been studying African wild dogs in...

A pack of African wild dogs roams through a lush, waterlogged savanna. Despite observing large carnivores daily, it’s still quite rare to...

A white tail flashes out of the shade, momentarily painting an “S” sha pe on the dry grass canvas before falling abruptly back to earth....

​ I was lucky enough to join the BPCT as a research assistant at an ideal time, just as several of the female lions gave birth to their cubs. Once a female lion gives birth, she will leave the pride and remain on her own whilst the cubs are small, for the first three months or so. Fortunately, two of these females with new cubs are fitted with radiocollars (Krystal and Valentina), which allows us to monitor the growth and survival of their offspring while they are separate fr

After getting the coordinates for Mankwe Pack, obtained by Tico by aerial tracking, I made my first attempt at sleeping out in the bush....