Together with our partners at the University of Zurich, we added an extra piece to the puzzle improving our understanding of the dispersal patterns, and landscape connectivity of African wild dogs in the Kavango-Zambezi Trans Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) ecosystem...

Our collaboration with Professor Briana Abrahms’ group at the University of Washington is uncovering new links between climate change, carnivore behavior, and human-wildlife coexistence. This research integrates novel bio-logging technologies, observation, big data analytics, and social surveys to 1) investigate how African wild dogs and lions ...

BioBoundary: Predator Deterrents
We conduct research into ameliorating human-predator conflict in cattle ranches and subsistence livestock areas where HWC impacts both people and wildlife. The main focus is on leopards, but we also detect repellant effects on other species that threaten livestock.

The BioBoundary Project is developing technically simple, minimally invasive, ecologically benign, and economically viable new tools to reduce human-wildlife conflict (HWC). We have discovered that some synthetic odour-based equivalents of predators’ scent signals can keep predators away from livestock, and some plant-based odours ...

During 2023, together with the University of Zurich, we continued to monitor and research seasonal variations and long-term population trends of both predator and herbivore species using camera traps. Despite a few cameras having to be retired due to mechanical damage we were still able to cover the majority of BPC’s core historic ...

Years of efforts have finally paid off as the year ended with the first peer reviewed paper (of many to come) based on photographic data collected by tourists and local tour operators. Tourists’ photographs of wild animals all come with a date and a location and these collectively constitute useful data when submitted ...

Spotted hyaenas are among Africa’s most adaptable large carnivores. Highly social, intelligent, and resourceful, they play a central role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. Yet, along the borders of protected areas, hyaenas frequently come into conflict with livestock owners