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Tag Archives: predation
New paper published about the conflict between predators and small-livestock farmers in the Karoo
Dear readers, The Karoo Predator Project is happy to announce the publication of its recent research in a special issue (“Karoo Special Issue: Trajectories of Change in the Anthropocene”) of the African Journal of Range and Forage Science, titled “Spatial, … Continue reading
Webinar on large carnivore in Europe and interesting story of a shepherdess in the Swiss Alps
Today, The Karoo Predator Project attended a webinar on large carnivores in Europe (grey wolf, Eurasian lynx and brown bear) and on how sheep farmers could protect their sheep from predation. Tonu Talvi (Environmental Board of Estonia) and Valeria Salvatori (co-author … Continue reading
New KPP paper on the dietary niche relationships among predators on farmland and a protected area
The Karoo Predator Project is happy to announce that Wiley has published our research on the dietary niche relationships among predators on farmland and a protected area in the Journal of Wildlife Management. The paper was followed by an article … Continue reading
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Tagged caracal, diet, jackal, journal of wildlife management, karoo, mesocarnivore, predation, sheep, small-livestock, the wildlife society
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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
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Carnivore diet analysis in progress
Since the beginning of the Project in October 2012, Marine has been collecting caracal, black-backed jackal and leopard scats on farms and in Anysberg Nature Reserve to study their diets. With a total of more than 680 scats collected, it … Continue reading
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Tagged acacia, anysberg, black-backed jackal, diet analysis, gwarrie, karoo, predation, scat, sheep
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