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...

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....