How did the elephant cross the railway line?
By Hannah De Villiers When I started my Masters in wildlife conservation and thought about what I would like to…
A research group in the School of APES at Wits University
Category: African ecosytem
Tracking Twigs
By Jean Venter Black rhinos are big, imposing animals with a particularly curious look… Two long horns, after which they…
Chasing “striped horses” over the red sands of the Kalahari
Author: Paulo Ribeiro The sun is about to rise. With the naive determination of one who grew up in a…
A burning field trip
Recently one of our staff members, Sally Archibald, took some 3rd year students to the field to measure fire behaviour…
The future of African ecosystems in the balance
Africa contains more than half of the remaining potentially arable land in the world – most of this land is…