Centre for African Ecology | A research group in the School of APES at Wits University

Tracking Twigs

By Jean Venter Black rhinos are big, imposing animals with a particularly curious look… Two long horns, after which they…

Author: Paulo Ribeiro The sun is about to rise. With the naive determination of one who grew up in a…

Three of our outstanding students recently attended the Southern African Wildlife Management Association conference in Bela Bela. Each of them…

By Elena Mariotti I am currently doing fieldwork at Telperion and Ezemvelo Nature Reserves (TENR), situated on the boundaries of Gauteng and…

By Sze-Wing Yiu, Postdoctoral Fellow Reintroduction is a conservation practice that has been applied to re-establish species in areas…

by Tamanna Patel, PhD Candidate I am currently conducting field work for my PhD research in the Maloti-Drakensberg Park World…

By Monique Botha I recently conducted a field experiment to test the responses of tree saplings to fire at the…

by Alexandra Evans, MSc student. Supervisors: Profs. Jason Marshal and Graham Alexander. Madagascar is home to a host of fascinating…

By Dylan Beukes I recently conducted my field work at various sites across the Drakensberg mountain range to collect Rhodohypoxis…

By Caitlin Black. After seven months away from South Africa, spent amongst the cacophony of endless computer mouse ‘clicks,’ it…