In honour of World Wetlands Day We were searching for Mason , a collared male lion that usually roams near Xini Lagoon in the Moremi Game Reserve. We hadn’t seen him in some time, and our research protocol required us to locate him and download data from his GPS collar. When his signal finally appeared, we left the main track and drove off-road toward the steady beep.  Recent heavy rains had transformed the landscape. Tall grass concealed the ground, making it impossible to distinguish firm...

A pack of African wild dogs at dawn. In order to be able to monitor it, we decided to put a GPS/Satellite collar on another adult male in the pack which would allow us to reliably relocate the newly named Dijo Pack, and to gather data on its movements. In early May this year, Mogotlo Lodge, a small tourist camp close to Dog Camp just outside the Moremi Game Reserve, reported that they saw a new pack of wild dogs and one of the dogs had a wire-snare around its neck. We immediately headed out...

Dijo pack as they moved off into the sunset after having their snares removed. Having opportunistically radio-collared the dominant male...