Anyone who has ever worked with carnivores knows that this can be a rather smelly business. Whether it involves carcasses or fresh faeces, their smell can never really be forgotten, nor can their value to study carnivore ecology!

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Hello! I´m Tomás Azevedo, a veterinary student from Portugal. As of late I have been learning more about wildlife veterinary care, as well as conservation medicine. You can imagine my excitement when I was hooked up with Ongava Research Read more

Updated: Mar 7, 2022

When I came to Ongava in mid-2018 its vegetation was extremely sparse and dry. Little rain fell in the 2018/2019 summer, which led to even bleaker conditions during 2019. The summer of 2019/2020 was a Read more

In October 2021, we conducted our annual camera trap monitoring of Ongava’s waterholes. For a period of 7 days, we deployed multiple camera traps at each waterhole, and collected a whopping total of 221 143 images! After the fieldwork Read more

The arrival of the rains not only triggers striking changes in the landscape with the vegetation turning from brown yellow to lush green, but it also brings an amazing diversity of insects and other creepy-crawlies out. If you are Read more