A lion’s fingerprint
Identifying individual lions is not an easy task, and you need to start from a broad approach and narrow down to unique characteristics. We already saw how important it is to note the area of Read More …
Category: Conservation
Fantastic lions and how to identify them
ID kits are a huge help in identifying lions, but must be made accurately and kept up to date to make things easier. When making a new ID sheet, the first thing you do is Read More …
From the egg to the desert: an Ostrich reintroduction story
African Parks is famous for the many reintroductions they undertake in their parks, bringing back the species that intense poaching and bad management have taken out of the picture. This year I contributed to the Read More …
Up close and personal: Collaring lions in Zakouma
The first step in the lion project has been to collar 5 lions. We looked for lions living in areas that will flood in the wet season, such as Rigueik, Fatagoki and Tororo, and close Read More …
Monitoring Zakouma Lions
This year I’m working at an in-depth assessment of the lion population of Zakouma National Park. We are monitoring the lions through camera trapping, GPS collaring and individual identification to assess the challenges that the Read More …
Big Carnivore Survey in Zakouma NP
Zakouma National Park is an amazing wildlife safeheaven in the south east of Chad, managed by African Parks. With aerial surveys carried out often, the big mammal population is very well known and has increased Read More …
Discovering the Crocodiles of the Guelta d’Archei
This week I started the surveys in the Guelta d’Archei to learn more about its small, isolated and little know population of crocodiles. On Monday morning I moved into my new home in Archei. Form Read More …
Camera trapping in Terkei
This week I traveled with a small APN team to Terkei to deploy some camera traps in order to find out which species can be found in the area. Terkei is famous for its rock Read More …
Out in the field in the Ennedi
This week I started the second phase of my stage with conservation non-profit African Parks which manages the Natural and Cultural Reserve of Ennedi and Zakouma National Park in partnership with the Government of Chad. While the first Read More …
Jurassic Park science to save the Northern White Rhinos
Two days ago Sudan, the last male northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) died of complications due to old age, leaving only two females to represent this subspecies, his daughter Najin and granddaughter Fatu. Even Read More …