Updated: Feb 6, 2023

Obtaining reliable estimate for wildlife population sizes is highly desirable for management and conservation purposes but it is rarely a straightforward exercise… However sometimes, nature makes it a bit easier for us, as some species Read more

During the second half of September, at the peak of this year’s drought, ORC conducted an intensive camera trapping survey on Ongava. During the 2.5 weeks survey, 50 camera traps placed at Ongava’s waterholes recorded over 850,000 images in Read more

Ongava is home to numerous endemic mammal, bird, reptile and plant species. But among mammals, only one is a carnivore and it is the black mongoose (Galerella nigrata). This small mongoose (<1kg, ~70cm long including the tail) looks very Read more

August full moon nocturnal monitoring was filled with sightings of our most secretive big cat. It started with 2 leopards were observed mating. Corne Cocklin managed to get a few pictures of the male and when we compared his Read more

A seasoned scientist once told me: ‘Everything starts with a good map‘. And that’s entirely true. Wildlife researchers struggle to interpret information without a firm spatial context, such as roads, waterholes and boundaries for instance. As the Read more