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

This year, on 22nd April in which is celebrated as Earth Day, we launched an ambitious tree planting campaign because “Every Day-is-Earth-Day”.

With the current climate change alarm, there has never been a more important time to help. The initiative aims to plant one indigenous tree in every school ground in Ngamiland every year, as a legacy ...

Empowers women and youth to grow vegetables for nutrition and income, enhancing food security, a commodity to sell, while also creating job opportunities in crop production. The "Village Green" garden cooperative projects are central to the village CoExistence model...

The Okavango Delta and it’s rich wildlife ecosystem supports a growing tourism industry. But in Habu and other adjacent villages on the periphery of the delta, cattle farming is the predominant livelihood and conflict between wildlife and livestock is common...

Guided by the Sustainable Wildlife Management philosophy, a portion of communal rangelands are designated cattle-free zones to support wildlife recovery for community based wildlife tourism and...

The Village Enterprise program focuses on developing village economic opportunities through assisting village institutions with improved skills to run a small business. Some of the enterprises currently in development include a women and youth gardening cooperative...

A program of ongoing skills development, training, capacity building and practical experience - members of a community governing body, and the whole community learn from each other, and from Wild Entrust mentors , how to become Village Mentors and leaders in equitable governance and sustainable resource use.

Safari - In 2019 Coaching Conservation expanded on the already powerful partnership between Coaching Conservation, Natural Selection Safaris and the Natural Selection Conservation Trust (NSCT) by designing a CC Safari program.

Background - This 2026 expansion is a collaboration between Coaching Conservation, Wild-Link as the implementing partner and will be powered by ABC (African Bush Camps)...

Good Work Foundation (GWF) began delivering Coaching Conservation’s Rapid Awareness Programs in 2017, with the aim of educating Grade 5 school children in rural Mpumalanga on rhino conservation and increasing their awareness of the poaching crisis...

In April 2019, the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) and Coaching Conservation (CC) embarked on a long-term partnership aimed at scaling up children’s education for sustainable development across Southern Africa. This collaboration has resulted in significant strides

Back in 2013, Coaching Conservation delivered its first program outside of Botswana, working in South Africa, in partnership with Investec Rhino Lifeline. The program began as a small pilot for 350 kids, but grew annually until 2018, when the delivery reached all Grade 5 children in the target region...

Solar lights in a household enable each learner an extra hour each day to read, learn and do homework in their home. Many communities are far from the nation’s electrical grid, and even those that have, many households are still ...

Empowers youth through a variety of educational activities including Coaching Conservation’s Learning from Wildlife environmental education program. Through ongoing engagement with learners in Primary School, Wild Entrust seeks....