African wild dog overmarking a synthetic (lab produced artificial) scent mark precisely as if it were a natural scent mark. The Importance of Scent Communication in African Wild Dogs A few months ago, Botswana Predator Conservation’s BioBoundary project achieved a significant milestone. For the first time, we captured evidence that African wild dogs respond behaviorally to single lab-produced components of their territorial scent mark signals. They react in the same way they do to natural...

Our BioBoundary experiments at livestock enclosures have previously shown that BioBoundary deterrents, based on predators’ chemical signals, protect livestock by keeping predators away.  But nearly all predator attacks happen when animals are out grazing, and using BioBoundary chemical signals at overnight kraals does not protect these free-ranging livestock. Adapting our BioBoundary deterrents to protect livestock while they are grazing has the potential to revolutionize how all sectors of...

Leopard caught on a camera trap. Dr. Peter Apps runs Botswana Predator Conservation's BioBoundary Project BIOBOUNDARY PREDATOR REPELLENTS; DOING IMPOSSIBLE THINGS “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” - Vince Lombardi Botswana Predator Conservation’s BioBoundary Project is developing new ways of mitigating human-predator conflict, by using artificial equivalents of natural chemical signals to keep predators away from livestock, or safely inside...