SAWMA Conference in Bela Bela
Three of our outstanding students recently attended the Southern African Wildlife Management Association conference in Bela Bela. Each of them... Read more »
Ungulate landscape use at TENR
By Elena Mariotti I am currently doing fieldwork at Telperion and Ezemvelo Nature Reserves (TENR), situated on the boundaries of Gauteng and... Read more »
Reintroduction ecology of a top-order predator
By Sze-Wing Yiu, Postdoctoral Fellow Reintroduction is a conservation practice that has been applied to re-establish species in areas... Read more »
The Eland-scape of the Drakensberg
by Tamanna Patel, PhD Candidate I am currently conducting field work for my PhD research in the Maloti-Drakensberg Park World... Read more »
Burning saplings
By Monique Botha I recently conducted a field experiment to test the responses of tree saplings to fire at the... Read more »
Madagascar’s cryptic reptiles
by Alexandra Evans, MSc student. Supervisors: Profs. Jason Marshal and Graham Alexander. Madagascar is home to a host of fascinating... Read more »
Finding flowers
By Dylan Beukes I recently conducted my field work at various sites across the Drakensberg mountain range to collect Rhodohypoxis... Read more »
Finding motivation in the bush
By Caitlin Black. After seven months away from South Africa, spent amongst the cacophony of endless computer mouse ‘clicks,’ it... Read more »
Listening in on elephants in the Greater Kruger
What did one elephant say to the other? I actually don’t have a punchline, I’m sorry. But I’m a scientist,... Read more »
Elephants, Bees, and a Taste of Sri Lanka
By Robin Cook. Having recently completed my MSc degree at Wits University, I was offered a once in a lifetime... Read more »