Elephants can be a real problem for rural farmers in northern Botswana, especially during the late dry season when water becomes...

In my quest to learn about the collaboration between Wild Entrust (WE) and the Habu Elephant Development Trust (HEDT), I traveled 200 km...

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...

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...