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Tag Archives: jackal
Presentation at the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve Forum
Last Tuesday, Marion and I (Marine) woke up at 4 am to leave Cape Town and drive to the Oudtshoorn Experimental Farm in the Karoo. We were invited by Dr. AnneLise Schutte-Vlok to give presentations at the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) Forum. Marion … Continue reading
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Tagged Annelise vlok, baboon, caracal, conflict, Drouilly, GCBR, Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve Forum, jackal, karoo, predator, small-livestock, Tafani
Author Workshop for Scientific Assessment on Livestock and Predation
Last Thursday and Friday, Justin, Nicoli, Marion and Marine were invited to Port Elizabeth to attend the author workshop for the Scientific Assessment on Livestock and Predation in South Africa (to learn more about the project, see previous post or click here). The … Continue reading
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Tagged caracal, jackal, karoo, karoo predator project, livestock, management, mesopredator, NMU, predation, predSA
Congratulations to Storme Viljoen!
The Karoo Predator Project is very proud of their M.Sc. student Storme Viljoen for handing in her Master thesis “Wildlife health in human-modified landscapes: epidemiology of tick-borne pathogens affecting black-backed jackals and caracals” on Monday at the University of Cape … Continue reading
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Tagged caracal, jackal, karoo, storme Viljoen, tick-borne pathogen
The Karoo Predator Project now involved with PredSA
The Karoo Predator Project is now involved with the Scientific Assessment on Livestock Predation in South Africa (PredSA). The objective of this work is to “inform decision maker’s (in this case the South African government departments, and specifically the Ministers … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, caracal, jackal, karoo, livestock, mesopredator, nnmu, predator, predSA
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A successful Karoo trip to share our results with farmers
On Friday, 11th of November, the Karoo Predator Project set up on a journey to share results and information about predators with the farmer communities in the Karoo. The trip started on Friday afternoon with two vehicles: one with Justin, visiting … Continue reading
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Tagged baboon, Beaufort West, caracal, farmer, isotope, jackal, karoo, karoo national park, karoo predator project, laingsburg, prince albert, rooikat, stephen redpath
November roadshow in the Karoo
Dear readers, Summer is (very) slowly coming to the Cape and before the end-of-year festivities, the Karoo Predator Project is going to go on a roadshow through parts of the Karoo to present some of the results of the research that … Continue reading
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Tagged baboon, Beaufort West, caracal, farmers meeting, jackal, karoo predator project, laingsburg, prince albert, rooikat, sutherland
Two prizes at the SAWMA Symposium for the Karoo Predator Project
Hello all, At the end of September, the Karoo Predator Project (Prof. Justin O’Riain, Dr. Marion Tafani, Storme Viljoen and Marine Drouilly) was present at the SAWMA Symposium in the Limpopo Province, along with other students and post-docs from the … Continue reading
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Tagged baboon, caracal, jackal, karoo predator project, leopard, Marine drouilly, marion tafani, SAWMA, storme Viljoen
