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Of teeth and claws

Updated: Jan 13, 2022

Taking stock of carnivore research in the Greater Etosha Landscape

The Greater Etosha Landscape (GEL) is host to a wide diversity of carnivores, with an almost complete guild of large carnivores (only the African wild Read more

Queleas murmurations at Andersson’s

Updated: Dec 22, 2021

Have you ever heard about queleas? Chances are you did hear about these huge flocks of small, red-billed birds destroying crops and being eradicated as pest? These are red-billed queleas (Quelea quelea), small Read more

Where do you find what you are searching for?… In the last place you look, of course!

In this day and age, plenty of information is available online, thanks to the well-established electronic system. In Namibia, old and young researchers have greatly contributed towards the Environmental Information System (EIS, http://www.the-eis.com/). Even though this database hosts Read more

Cheetah Marking Trees on Ongava

Namibia is well known for harbouring about 25% of the remaining global cheetah population. Given the healthy lion and spotted hyaena populations on Ongava, however, cheetahs face a hard time here and occur only in small numbers. All the Read more

Observation of vegetation changes between burned and unburned areas. Part 1

Updated: Dec 28, 2021

After a good rainy season in North Central Namibia in 2020, the Ongava Research Centre received an ~ 514mm of rain and the vegetation in the area was absolutely spectacular. In the dry season, April Read more