Monika Schiess-Meier and her team have been working in the Kalahari for over 20 years. In this year’s calendar, our trackers tell stories about tracks and signs they have encountered, illustrated with beautiful pictures from the Kalahari ecosystem. Price: 18 CHF plus 3 CHF postage Orders: nicole.gusset(at)ieu.uzh.ch
Yearly archives: 2023
Leopard Ecology & Conservation (LEC) is a project that promotes the long-term survival of leopard and lion populations in Botswana by integrating conservation and community education. The mission of the LEC’s Community and Education Programme is to address the human-wildlife conflict prevalent in our current study area. It aims to […]
During the last three months (15th May – 15th August 2023), the Research Department of LEC has collaborated with the Quantitative Conservation Biology Research Group (QUAC, led by Prof. Nicolas Schtickzelle) of Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium) on an exciting new project! For a few years now, both parties […]
Project: “Improving estimates of daily travel distances for Kalahari large herbivores” About the Study The study aims to improve daily travel distances (or day range) estimates for Kalahariwildlife in order to refine population density estimates. The focus will be on five large herbivore species lacking of empirical day range data, […]